Labor & Employment Law Blog

In 2010, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed nine out of the eleven employment-related bills we were tracking that made it to his desk for approval. Among the vetoed legislation were bills: limiting the use of credit checks in employee background checks, requiring employers to provide unpaid bereavement leave, increasing damages in minimum wage actions, increasing penalties for failure to pay final wages actions, and removing overtime and meal period exemptions for certain agricultural employees.