Legal Insights

A Wage & Hour Primer for HR Managers of California Cannabis Businesses
Rogoway Law Group

A Wage & Hour Primer for HR Managers of Cannabis Businesses

We are offering the following observations so that HR managers in the cannabis field can better understand some of the rules that govern wage and hour requirements here in California. These rules are important because failure to follow them can expose employers (the operating cannabis companies) and sometimes their executives to significant civil fines and penalties and, in the case

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Phantom Stock For Cannabis Businesses
Rogoway Law Group

Phantom Stock – Why Private Cannabis Companies Should Take Note

Privately held cannabis companies might want to give serious consideration to awarding their employees “phantom stock” rather than equity options. Working so close to Silicon Valley and its “option holder” millionaires, can make it easy for California entrepreneurs to forget the many challenges private companies face when awarding equity options to employees. Obviously, private companies lack a public market for

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