The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (the Division) recently adopted Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards Order # 36 (COMPS), which will take effect on March 16, 2020.[1] COMPS will replace the Colorado Minimum Wage Order, which had largely remained substantively unchanged for two decades. With the
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California’s New Rest Period Requirements for Piece-Rate Workers
By Mara Curtis on
California law requires that employers authorize and permit their employees to take rest periods based on the total hours worked in a day. Employers must authorize and permit 10 minutes net rest time for every four hours worked or major fractions of an hour. If the workday is less than three and one-half hours, then no rest period is required. Even though no work is performed, employers must consider rest periods as compensable time worked.
New Rest Period Requirements For Piece-Rate Workers
Recently, the legislature placed substantial new requirements on employers with employees who are compensated on a piece-rate basis for any work within a pay period.
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