Staples Wage and Hour Settlement

The focus of this blog is not employment law, and there are other blogs (Storm on the employer side, Wage Law on the employee side) whose authors do an excellent job in this field. But anybody  who conducts any kind of business at all in California needs to be aware of the dangers of misclassifying as  "managers" employees who stock shelves, mop up spills and counters, apply price stickers, run the cash register and have other non-management duties.   The exposure for non-payment of overtime is enormous, as Staples recently found out, according to this report in Wage Law:  $38 million, or more than $22,000 per "assistant manager."