Source: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/OpinionLetters-byDate.htm
Timestamp: 2013-05-21 09:18:23
Document Index: 240084008

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 212', '§ 212', '§ 2928', '§ 226', '§ 450', '§ 202', '§ 203', '§ 226', '§ 2802', '§ 221', '§1294', '§ 212', '§ 224', '§ 450', '§ 2802', '§ 973', '§ 204', '§ 2802', '§ 2802', '§ 204']

DLSE opinion letters - by date
Deductions: From Leave Credits for Partial and Full Day Absences of Exempt Employees
Salary Basis Test - Work Schedule and Salary Reduction to Avoid Layoff
(Pdf w/attach)(Doc w/o)
Credit Available for Training Trust Payments
Compensability: Time Spent Obtaining a Transportation Worker Identification Credential Card
Wage Deduction: Authorization for Overpayments Due to Payroll Practice
Requesting Letter 1
Requesting Letter 2
Payroll/Debit Cards - Means of Payment of Wages Labor Code §§ 212 and 213
2008.07.07-2
Money Network Checks - Means of Payment of Wages under Labor Code § 212
Mandated Security Officer Training Time: Compensability
Electronic Delivery of wage statements
Personal Attendant definition: Scope of Duties - IWC Order 15
Tip pooling policy: lawfulness of mandatory policy and criteria for participation in mandatory policy
Private right of action to enforce amounts owed under the meal period provisions of the IWC Orders and under the Labor Code
Exemption: Determination of exempt or nonexempt status of officers and "key administrative personnel" employed by labor unions
Commissions: Post termination
Resident Employees - IWC Order 5-2001 (as updated)
Travel time pay for employee with alternative worksites
Child labor: Entertainment Industry - Reality Television
Deductions: From employee's wages for damage to company property
Farm labor contractor license requirements
Labor Code § 2928: Wage deductions for tardiness; apparent contradiction between code sections
Wages, regular rate of pay: Calculation where employer wishes to provide additional compensation to employee to "make them whole" when employee is "called off" scheduled work because of drop in workload
Waiting time penalty: Calculation
Vacation pay: Calculation
Vacation pay: Change in plan
Exemption: Teachers
Wages: Payment based on employer's receipt of payment for services rendered
Exempt status: Professionals
Exemption: Site surveillance technicians
IWC coverage: Employees of temporary employment agency placed with public employers
Overtime: Limousine drivers
Payroll payment by cash dispensing machine
Hours worked: Split shift
Wage requirements for camp counselors
Meal periods: Impact of Senate Bill 1208 on an existing collective bargaining agreement
2002.12.09-2
Meal periods: "On duty"
Negative election to participate in 401(k) plans
55.2.1.1; 55.2.1.2; 55.2.1.2.1
Employer: Definition of employer
2002.06.14-1
Overtime: Commission pay plans
Salesperson exemption (Orders 4 and 7)
2002.06.13-2
Coverage of California's wage laws
56.11; 56.11.1
Semimonthly pay periods for nonexempt salaried employees (Labor Code § 226)
Wages: Salary requirement, disciplinary deductions from exempt's salary
Exempt employee: Calculation of pro rata deduction from salary
51.6.12; 51.6.15
Exempt employee: No reduction in salary for day absent if there is a reasonable expectation that employee is to perform some duty
51.6.7
Exempt employee: Reduction of salary in conjunction with reduction of hours in workday or days in workweek
51.6.6; 51.6.21.1
46.3; 46.3.1; 46.3.2; 47.5.1.1
Hours worked: time spent traveling on out-of-town business trip
43.6.4.1; 44.2.2; 47.4.2; 47.7.1
Hours worked: Public transit employees start and end shifts at different locations
Illegal to require payment to apply for employment (Labor Code § 450)
IWC coverage: Log truck drivers (Order 16)
45.3.5; 45.3.6.1
Rest periods: Order 16 (on-site construction)
Rest periods: CBA exception
Tips: Dancers (Orders 5 and 10)
Minimum wage: California State University employees
Overtime: Saturday and Sunday work: Public Works employment contracting
Hours worked: Meal periods restricted to employer's premises
Compensation: Ski industry employees
Service charge not gratuity
2000.11.02-1
Farm labor contractor status
Deductions: Debiting a manager's pay for staff salary and expenses
Employment status: Culinary externs
Overtime: No pyramiding of hours
Contract: What constitutes a written contract "for a definite period of time" within the meaning of Labor Code § 202 in determining the applicability of the waiting time penalty under Labor Code § 203
1999.09.22-1
Deductions: Overpayment of wages
Third party beneficiary claims
4.6; 34.9
Discharge: Payment of commissions upon termination
45.1.5.1; 46.6.3; 47.5.5.1
Hours worked: "On-call time," resident apartment managers
1998.12.28-1
Hours worked: Uniforms, change time
Hours worked: Effect of CBA on determining "hours worked"
Employment status: Interns
1998.11.12-1
Hours worked: Training time
Electronic paychecks and direct deposit (Labor Code §§ 226 and 1174)
Expenses: Reimbursement, purchase of excess auto insurance (Labor Code § 2802)
Exemption: Administrative (insurance company claims reps)
Deductions: Negative election to participate in 401(k) plans (Labor Code §§ 221-224)
Vacation: "Use it or lose it" clause
Discharge: Pay vacation at termination
Child labor: Prohibited construction work (Labor Code §1294.1)
Wages: Bonus paid in kind Labor Code § 212)
1998.09.14-1
IWC coverage: Agricultural occupations, Order 14 vs. 13 (packaging facility located on grower's farm)
Hours worked: Charging applicants for training
1998.09.11-1
Work recesses: IWC Order 8-80, Section 3(E)
Exemption: Outside salesperson, real estate
Deductions: Payroll (Labor Code § 224)
IWC classification: Private clubs (Orders 5 and 10)
Workers' compensation insurance coverage: Requirement for relatives
Hours worked: Sleep periods for ambulance drivers and attendants (Orders 5 and 9-98)
IWC coverage: Employees of temporary employment agencies
Public Works: partner coverage
IWC classification: Golf courses with restaurants
1997.12.03-2
Overtime: Fluctuating workweek
Payroll direct deposit: ATM access
Vacation pay as "wages"
Exemption: Executive, remuneration test
Reporting time pay: Poor performance
Workers' compensation insurance: Out-of-state employers
1997.07.22-1
IWC coverage: Order 5 overlap with occupational orders
Waiting time penalty: Collective bargaining agreements
Independent contractors: "Promotional extras"
50.8.1.1; 50.9.3
Overtime exemption: "For hire" motor trucks
1997.03.21-2
22.3, 29.2.3.1
Expenses: Reimbursement by direct deposit may not be compelled
Exemption: Professional, physician assistants and nurse practitioners
54.10.7.1
IWC coverage: Cut flower industry (Order 14)
1997.02.21-2
Credit card requirement by employer where no cost to employee
Patronizing employer: Employer cannot require employee to purchase truck for use in business (Labor Code § 450)
46.6.6
Exemption: Trainee intern programs
Waiting time penalty: "Willfulness" (inability to pay)
Payday obligations: Direct deposit
Discharge: Waiting time penalty (employees of temporary employment agencies)
Overtime: Provisions of IWC wage order. for two-axle trucks not regulated by Department of Transporation
Discharge: Layoff (contractual recall rights)
IWC coverage: Trucking company support personnel
Paperless time recording system
Jurisdiction: Multiplicity of actions
29.2.3.4
Training: Cost of licensure training not usually payable by employer
43.7.1.3
IWC coverage: Multi-purpose firm with distinctly separate units
Personal attendant: "Other significant work"
Expenses: Reimbursement (Labor Code § 2802)
Garment manufacturing: Out-of-state supplier contracting in California
Jurisdiction: Military bases; Temporary/Full Time Employees in oil spill cleanup; Employees temporarily employed in another state
Employment applications: Release of liability for disclosure of information
1994.06.17-1
Wages, regular rate of pay
1994.06.17-2
Overtime exemption: Commissions ("principally")
Vacation: Cash out at lesser rates prohibited
Exempt status: Additional compensation
Hours worked: On-call time (tests, travel, and training)
1994.02.16-1
Uniforms: Requirement, clothing without metal
50.6; 50.6.4.3
Overtime exemption: Commissioned sales (use of draw in computing)
1994.02.03-1
9.1.9; 9.1.9.3; 41.2.3
1994.02.03-3
46.6.4; 48.1.9.1
1994.02.03-4
11.2.4; 11.3.1
Deductions: Cost of processing lost or stolen check
Overtime: Banquet service charges as bonus
Bonus: Banquet service charges, overtime
Exemption: Executive, "customarily and regularly"
Hours worked: Workday
Overtime: Pyramiding
Hours worked: Training or tryout time
IWC coverage: Printing (Order 1)
IWC coverage: Newspaper publishing (Order 4)
Student Trainee vs. employee; work permit requirement
43.6.8
Trainees: Criteria utilized for true trainee situation vs. employee
Vacation: Earnings cap (reasonableness)
Exemption: Executive, Applicability of Federal caselaw
Discharge: Layoff vs. shutdown
1993.05.04-2
Labor Code § 973: Advertising for employees during a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute
1993.04.19-3
Garment manufacturing license: Temporary employment agencies
Pay day obligations (Labor Code § 204)
1993.04.19-1
Deductions: Unauthorized
Deductions: IWC Orders, Section 8
Deductions: Gross negligence, simple negligence
Posting of bond: Employer protection against loss of goods
46.1.1; 47.4.2; 47.5.6.1
Hours worked: On-call time, beepers
Compensation: "Control of the employer" test for compensation due to employee
34.3.1; 34.8
Commissions: Effect of termination
11.3.1; 29.2.3.1; 34.4.1; 49.2.1.2
Commissions: Loss reconciliation
Commissions: Mortgage loan officer commissions
1993.02.22-1
Wages, regular rate of pay: Piece rate, calculation
1993.02.22-2
11.2.4; 22.3
Deductions: IWC Orders, Section 9
1993.02.22-3
29.2.3.1;
Expenses: Reimbursement for cost of insurance required by employer are recoverable (Labor Code § 2802)
43.6.11
IWC coverage: Air charter service (Order 9)
Bonus: Effect of voluntary termination
1993.01.19-2
Employer must pay for mandated safety training
1993.01.07-1
Employees: Vocational trainees (students)
Minimum wage: Trainees, application, exemption
Workers' compensation insurance coverage: Employee leasing company
Overtime: Extended care facilities (14/80 rule)
Overtime: Regular rate of pay, multiple rates
Discharge: Pay at termination for holiday
Wages, regular rate of pay: Calculation for employee working at two different hourly rates
Vacation: Bonus days
Reporting time pay: Absent a specific agreement, eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work
47.5.6.1
Hours worked: Pagers; Meal Period "On Duty"
Alternative workweek: Healthcare registry workers (Order 5)
1991.11.01-4
Alternative workweek: Work beyond regular schedule
Owner/operator lease agreements: Costs of operating truck
56.7.3.1
Meal Periods - Obligation to provide
Vacation: Recovery of unearned vacation, prospective policy amendment
11.3.1; 34.2
Deductions: Discussion of underlying law
Personal attendant: Nonprofit corporation respite care workers, IWC Order 5
Alternative workweek: Temporary placement in multiple settings
50.7.1.3
Alternative workweek: "Affected employees"
Wages, regular rate of pay: Bonuses included in overtime calculation
1991.02.25-1
Employee expenses: Automobile insurance requirement (Labor Code § 2802)
Uniforms: Requirements
15.1.4;
Vacation: Earnings cap
1991.01.07-1
48.1.4; 48.1.6
Overtime: "Belo" contracts; premium pay
Overtime: "Belo" contracts
34.4; 34.4.1;
Commissions: Reserve accounts; loss reconciliation
Vacation: "Paid time off"
Uniforms: Tropical shirts
1990.07.23
Overtime computation: Piece rate
IWC coverage: Maintenance (Order 5)
43.6.5; 43.6.7
Volunteers: Definition of volunteer vs. employee
Minimum Wage: No exemption for employees of religious organizations
Commissions: Nursing procedures
15.1.4; 15.1.5
Vacation: Probationary periods, accrual and acceleration
Bonus: Payment on monthly basis (Labor Code § 204)
Wages: Hourly rate plus commissions
Deductions: Authorization
Wages, regular rate of pay: Basic wage plus commission
Overtime: Wage plus commission
1988.05.16-2
Commission vs. piece rate
Wages: Calculation salary plus commissions
1988.03.21-2
Overtime: Excessive, day of rest
Vacation: Sabbatical leave (See also, O.L. 1987.07.13-1)
1987.09.08
Vacation: Federal Service Contract Act (See also O.L. 1987.06.13)
Overtime: Federal Service Contract Act
Vacation: Longevity bonuses by temporary service agencies in lieu of vacation
1987.07.13-1
Vacation: Sabbatical leave (See also, O.L. 1987.10.06)
Bonus: Substantial performance, recovery from wages
Vacation: Federal Service Contract Act (See also O.L. 1987.09.08)
Bonus: Substantial performance rule
Vacation: When not paid, employees allowed unpaid time off
Vacation: Pro rata pay case-by-case basis
Vacation: Based on proportionate accrual and no forfeiture
15.1.12.1
Vacation: Sick leave used for personal business
Pay: Minimum wage, draw offsets
Wages: Value of prizes calculated in overtime
1987.01.14-1
Vacation: Personal days off
Electric payroll deposit
Vacation: Accrual rate may not decelerate during employment
Vacation: Cafeteria style plans
Bonus: Payday obligations, quarterly bonus
Vacation: Sabbatical leave
Vacation: Calculation on draw, percentages of commissions
Hours worked: Vacation, flex time off
Termination pay: Unearned vacation time advanced to employee deducted at time of termination
Differentiation between sick leave and vacation pay
Termination pay: Obligation to return in case of quit
Jurisdiction: NRLA preemption
Vacation: Car allowance
Jurisdiction: National Forests
Overtime: Mechanics, flat rate