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		<title>San Jose Minimum Wage: Current Rate, Historical Data &#038; What Employees Should Know</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[San Jose’s minimum wage is expected to increase again on January 1, 2026! Currently it is $17.95 and this rate remains higher than California’s statewide minimum wage reflecting the city’s ongoing cost-of-living adjustments under its local ordinance. Below, we explain how the city sets its minimum wage, provide historical data from recent years, and outline [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>San Francisco Minimum Wage Increases for 2025 and Beyond</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[As of July 1, 2025, San Francisco’s minimum wage rose to $18.67 per hour. The rate will rise again to $19.18 per hour on July 1, 2026. How the Rate Is Set The exact 2026 minimum wage will be based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose metropolitan area, consistent with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>California Overtime and Commission Pay Attorney: Understanding Your Rights to Unpaid Wages and Miscalculated Commissions</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Understanding Your Rights to Commission Pay in California Many California employees, salespeople, technicians, and service professionals, are paid partly or entirely through commissions. Unfortunately, many employers misapply the rules, leading to unpaid wages, missing overtime, or illegal commission forfeitures. Under California Labor Code § 200, “wages” include all amounts for labor performed by employees of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Your Right to Meal Breaks in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s been a surge in lawsuits filed by workers trying to enforce their meal break rights. Learn if your rights have been violated.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Motor Carrier Exemption For Tour Bus Drivers Who Do Not Cross State Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Under California Law, 10-Minute Rest Breaks Must be Off-Duty and Cannot be On-Call</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is It Legal for My Employer to Interrupt My 10-Minute Rest Break in California? Question: I work as a waitress in a local restaurant. My shift usually starts at 5:00 pm and ends around 11:30 pm. My manager tells me that I should take at least two 10-minute rest breaks during my shift and at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should My Employer Pay Me for Travel Time From Home to Distant Job Site?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 06:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do California Employers Have to Pay for Travel Time to Distant Job Sites? Hypothetical Problem: I work as a mover for a company that often requires me to drive to job sites located unusually far from my home and unusually far from the area where I typically work. For example, most of the job sites [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>By 2018, San Francisco&#8217;s Minimum Wage will Increase to $15</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note (Updated 2025):This article discusses minimum wage rates that applied in prior years.For the most recent San Francisco minimum wage increase and 2026 projections, please see our updated post:San Francisco Minimum Wage 2025–2026 &#124; California Labor Law Blog Effective January 1, 2015, the minimum wage in San Francisco increased to $11.05 per hour. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When is it Proper to Classify Delivery Drivers as Independent Contractors?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexei Kuchinsky, Esq]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is another post written in a Q &#38; A format and is intended to help California delivery drivers to determine whether they are improperly classified as independent contractors. In one of our prior posts, we discussed how the legal distinction between independent contractors and employees can be an important  one when it comes to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Calculate Overtime When both Daily and Weekly Overtime Hours Worked in the Same Week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexei Kuchinsky, Esq]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following post is written in a Q &#38; A format and is intended to explain employers and employees California overtime law for computing daily and weekly overtime hours for non-exempt employees. It appears there is a misunderstanding as to the correct method of calculating  overtime hours for certain workweeks during which employee&#8217;s work hours [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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