Seyfarth Synopsis: Failure to promote claims brought under the Fair Employment and Housing Act accrue when the adversely affected employee knows, or reasonably should know, of the employer’s unlawful refusal to promote; and...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Biel v. St. James School, the Ninth Circuit once again split from other circuit courts, this time by narrowly construed an affirmative defense known as the “ministerial exception” that bars claims of...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Court of Appeal has utilized theories of equitable estoppel and agency to hold that an employee must arbitrate claims he asserted against an alleged joint employer, even though that defendant...more