Business Insider Magazine - Los Angeles South Bay » court http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider Business Insider Magazine is Your Business Publication for the Los Angeles South Bay Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 CalChamber Goes to Court to Protect Businesses from Additional Wage-and-Hour Lawsuits http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider/2009/11/calchamber-goes-to-court-to-protect-businesses-from-additional-wage-and-hour-lawsuits/ http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider/2009/11/calchamber-goes-to-court-to-protect-businesses-from-additional-wage-and-hour-lawsuits/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:38 +0000 Editor and Publisher http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider/?p=695 CalChamber_In_Court_2009_125_WEB(The California Chamber of Commerce) The California Chamber of Commerce is urging the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal to reverse a district court ruling that could result in numerous more wage-and-hour lawsuits against California employers.

The CalChamber is arguing that the district court ruling fails to follow the plain language of the law and disregards the long-standing California requirement that exemption determinations be made based on an analysis of employees’ individual job duties.

The CalChamber has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Employers Group in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in ... Continue Reading

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