One of the most common wage and hour mistakes I see California employers make is to approach their employees
wage and hour practices, how they record their time, how they record their meal breaks, when they take their rest
breaks. to approach those with a level of informality that speaks well of the employer’s
intention and that it regards their employees as adults who are responsible for themselves, but that fails to
acknowledge that California’s labor and employment laws as it relates to wage and hour impose highly technical and unforgiving requirements on employers.
And so informality becomes an invitation to either abuse or mistakes. And the
abuse by employees or the mistakes by the employer end up exposing employers to tremendous potential exposure when a
disgruntled employee leaves and then tries to make a PGA claim or a class action claim based on non-compliance
with California’s technical requirements.