Overview

California-Based Employers: Do you employ employees in other states? If so, do they occasionally come to California on business? Non-California-Based Employers: Do your employees ever come to California on business? If so, according to a recent ruling by the California Supreme Court, you may need to watch out. In that June 30 ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously gave non-resident employees the right to sue their California-based employer for overtime pay based on work they did in California, even if that work lasted for only a single day. The Court also suggested (but did not hold) that non-California employers may be subject to the same requirement.