Managers Exploited under California Labor Law

Santa Rosa: For the past 12 years Bill worked for a national retail chain; he was hired as assistant manager then promoted to manager after six months. But Bill says most of his work hours were spent performing hourly associate functions such as stocking shelves, operating a cash register, assisting customers on the floor and offloading freight trucks. Under California Labor Law Bill was classified as exempt, but that is still a very gray area…