How many times have you seen or read about a new start-up company and then immediately kicked yourself for not coming up with that idea first? That was the case for me when I first learned about Uber. Founded in 2009, this local San Francisco-based company has single handedly shifted the way we think about, and use, the car service industry. With a simply swipe and tap on your smartphone, Uber can help you catch a ride to anywhere, from anywhere, in the 40 countries that it n

Commissioned salespeople are entitled to overtime pay for hours worked each week over 40 hours! This is true unless they fall under the inside sales exemption, which requires that each sales employee is paid at least one and one half (1 1/2) times California's minimum wage, or $13.50 an hour (currently, the California minimum wage is $9 an hour). Why is this information significant? The California Supreme Court ruled on this exact point this Monday in the case of Peabody v. T