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Labor/Employment

Dec. 9, 2016

The good, the bad and the ugly of new sick leave guidance

The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement recently provided guidance on the tricky subject of calculating paid sick leave for exempt employees.

Marie Burke Kenny

Partner
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Phone: (619) 525-3876

Email: marie.kenny@procopio.com

Marieis the leader of the firm's labor and employment practice group.

Lauren N. Vega

Associate
Ferraro Vega Employment Lawyers, Inc.

Phone: (619) 693-4307

Email: lauren@ferrarovega.com

As California employers settle into their second year of complying with California's paid sick leave law - the Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act of 2014 - they continue to grapple with questions regarding how to calculate paid sick leave for commissioned and exempt employees. Shedding light on those questions, the office of the California labor commissioner for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) released a new opinion letter in October, which clarifies the methods for ca...

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