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GET FREE PAYCHECK Evaluation: 888-209-2744 Calculating your proper pay can be difficult. You might have variable hours or different shifts. You might work overtime or do piece work. It is your employer’s job to give you a pay stub that clearly states your proper pay.
Sometimes it is easy to tell if there is a problem with your paycheck. Sometimes it takes an expert in California Labor Law. We will check your paycheck for errors related to overtime, misclassified work, under payment and itemization.
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California requires employers to pay overtime rates when employees work more than 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week. Overtime pay must be at least 1.5 times the hourly rate with some exceptions. Simple but costly overtime errors include miscounting hours or paying the wrong rate. Other errors come from not paying on time and explaining overtime calculations on the pay stub. Sometimes employers misclassify employees as exempt or not eligible for overtime. Worse, employers sometimes illegally make workers skip lunch, work off-the-clock or perform work-related tasks without paying them. Check your paycheck for overtime errors.
Don’t be a victim of paycheck underpayment errors. California provides strong protections for its workers. Every hourly worker has a right to meal and rest breaks. They also must be paid for work-related tasks like donning safety equipment, walking to their station, and travel under the employer’s control. Even workers on salary must be paid at least the equivalent of the minimum wage for straight hours. Employers must properly classify each worker as salaried or hourly, exempt or non-exempt. Pay for piecework and seasonal agriculture work must also follow clear rules. Find out if you were underpaid.
Your pay rate and eligibility for overtime depend on job classification. If your employer gets it wrong, you could be underpaid. California has strict rules defining hourly and salaried workers, for example. Rules also define exempt and non-exempt for overtime. Most exempt workers are salaried, but not all salaried workers are exempt. The rules are not easy to understand and can make a big difference in what you bring home. If you are misclassified, you could be owed back wages, taxes, penalties and interest. Watch out for paycheck classification errors.
Your paycheck should be easy to read. California labor law requires it. Your employer must give you wage and hour information so that you understand the pay you receive. You should not have to use a calculator. You should not need to look at a calendar. Your paycheck must be clear, so that you can easily understand it. If your paycheck is confusing, or appears to be inaccurate in any way, it may be in violation of the law. Violations may mean money is owed to you as penalty. An expert employment attorney can review your paycheck for violations of this complicated law. Find out if you have paycheck itemization errors.
Get a free evaluation of your pay stub. Find out if there are errors. You did the work. You earned the pay. Be sure you get it!
Employers are required to provide an itemized statement. The statement can be attached to the check, or it can be separate. It can be in writing or electronic. The statement must be provided semimonthly or at the time of wage payment. Employees all receive their own personalized statement.
Statements must be presented in a way that a worker can ‘promptly and easily’ understand how they are being paid.
Employers have to offer the choice between paper and electronic payment. They also have to offer the choice for the statement. Usually the payment and statement are delivered in the same way (that is, both are electronic or both are paper). This is the worker’s choice.
You don’t. Employers must make electronic statements available over the Internet. The system must be secure, so that your information is confidential. Your employer must allow you to access the system housing a worker’s pay statement from your own devices anywhere.
Your employer is required by law to allow you to print your electronic statement for your own personal use.
Your employer must provide workers with an itemized statement with your check.