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Labor/Employment

Jul. 26, 2016

Wage and hour laws haven't kept up with technology

California businesses and employees run the very real risk of missing out on many of these benefits, or falling behind other parts of the country and the world, because of the new mobile workforce.

Gene F. Williams

Senior Counsel
Gordon & Rees LLP

Phone: (213) 270-7831

Email: gfwilliams@grsm.com

UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA

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Evidence of the new mobile economy has become so pervasive that we hardly notice it: You're travelling for work and send an email back to the office at 10:00 p.m. regarding details for your meeting the next day, and get an immediate response from your assistant, who responds from his smartphone; you get an email from your real estate broker's assistant on a Sunday afternoon with details on a property you were hoping to put an offer in on; you're drafting a legal brief over the weekend and ...

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