Does state law apply to employees traveling from other areas?
February 26, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Overtime, State and local law
Here’s an issue you’ll need to think about if your company has any employees who travel for business:
Whether they’re covered by the laws of the states in which they travel.
We recently reported on a court’s ruling that California overtime law applies to any employee who’s working there — even employees from other states who travel to California on business.
Now, the court has withdrawn its opinion and asked the California Supreme Court to resolve the issue. Then the lower court will issue another ruling based on the Supreme Court’s analysis.
We’ll keep you posted.
Tags: California, travel
March 4th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
That ruling is ridiculous. Oh, wait – it’s KALIFORNIA. That explains it.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
It’s nice that California is looking out for employees there, but if most of the employers move out of state because the rules are too burdensome for them, it’s going to backfire. We closed our store in San Francisco because the laws are totally ridiculous there, even worse than elsewhere in the state.