Last week the federal minimum wage went up to $7.25 per hour. It is estimated that 4.5 million workers across the country got a raise last week, but that did not change anyone’s pay in California. California’s minimum wage at $8 per hour was already above the Federal minimum wage.
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Digital Domain loses termination suit
"Button" vfx company to pay $2 million in damages
By David s. Cohen
In a verdict handed down Thursday evening in Malibu, Christian Bradley "Brad" Call has won his wrongful termination suit against visual effects shop Digital Domain and has been awarded approximately $2 million in damages.
The size of the award raises questions about whether Digital Domain can survive, though in a statement, DD’s VP and general counsel Joseph Gabriel, said the ruling is "absolutely not going to put the company out of business."
Gabriel further noted that the company is (more…)
Allied Home Mortgage Corp. in Houston has paid $1,855,518 in back wages after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division accused the company of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by failing to pay an overtime premium to commission-only employees.
The Department of Labor says that the company cooperated with the investigation by conducting a self-audit and agreed to future compliance. Back wages have been paid to 588 branch managers, loan officers, loan processors, and clerks, who were performing inside sales work at the company.
The FLSA requires employers must maintain accurate time and payroll records. Also, employees must be paid minimum wage for all hours worked and time and one-half their regular rates of pay for hours worked over 40 per week.
Earnings may be determined on a piece-rate, salary, commission or some other basis, but in all such cases the overtime pay due must be computed on the basis of the average hourly rate derived from such earnings. The FLSA provides an exemption from both minimum wage and overtime pay for bona fide executive, administrative, professional, and outside sales employees.
Additional laws apply in California.
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A new State Department report says some local employees hired by U.S. embassies and other posts around the world are so poorly paid they have to cut back to one meal a day or send their children to peddle on the streets. The report quotes some overseas employees as saying they make less than $1 a day.
The State Department has established a "working group" to (more…)
Federal Minimum Wage Increased But Did Not Help California Employees 
