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CA Court of Appeal confirms unlicensed subcontractor’s workers may assert wage claims against general contractor

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2009

In Sanders Construction Company, Inc. v. Cerda, 2009 DJDAR 9714, issued June 29, 2009, the Fourth District Appellate Court confirmed that, by operation of Labor Code 2750.5, an unlicensed subcontractor’s workers are statutory employees of the general contractor, which may obligate it to pay their wages

Contractor must report non-obvious hazards even if it did not create them

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2010

California’s First District Court of Appeal in Suarez v. Pacific Northstar Mechanical, Inc., found that Cal-OSHA provisions, Labor Code 6304.5 and 6400, “impose a duty on each employer, at a multiemployer worksite, to report all non-obvious hazards about which the employer learns because its employees were exposed to them during the course of their work, even if the employer in question did not create the hazard.”

Prevailing wage law in California to cover certain private renewable and energy efficiency projects on public land

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 18 2011

New California law expands the definition of "public works," imposing prevailing wage obligations for construction, alteration, demolition, installation and repair work performed under certain private contracts in connection with renewable energy or energy efficiency improvements on public property

CA Employment Development Department now authorized to share new employee information

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2013

With the passage of Assembly Bill 1794, effective January 1, 2013, accurately and timely reporting new employees is now even more important. The new