The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights many of the concerns that employers might face should they find themselves in the midst of a liquidity crisis. Making payroll, arriving at decisions related to wage...more
3/14/2023
/ Business Operations ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Furloughs ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Involuntary Reduction in Force ,
Labor Relations ,
Layoffs ,
Liquidity ,
Notice Requirements ,
Unemployment Benefits ,
Wage and Hour
It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we might expect to see in the workplace in the coming year. After all:
- At the start of 2020, no one could have predicted COVID-19.
- None of us had heard the phrase...more
11/1/2022
/ Affirmative Action ,
Background Checks ,
Blockchain ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employee Retention ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gig Economy ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Labor Relations ,
Leave of Absence ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Trade Secrets ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
The California Supreme Court just made things a bit more difficult for employers by lowering the bar and making it easier for disgruntled employees and ex-employees to bring state whistleblower claims against businesses. The...more
2/2/2022
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Burden of Proof ,
CA Supreme Court ,
Clear and Convincing Evidence ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hiring & Firing ,
McDonnell Douglas Formula ,
Preponderance of the Evidence ,
Retaliation ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has just unanimously approved a proposed ordinance prohibiting retaliation against San Francisco employees who missed work after contracting or being suspected of contracting COVID-19....more
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors just passed the Back-to-Work Emergency Ordinance aimed at guaranteeing reemployment to certain workers who were laid off by covered employers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This Ordinance...more
Given the uncertainty surrounding the spread of COVID-19, efforts to contain it, and ever-changing health and safety guidelines, schools need to act quickly to address not only the current situation but also the new...more
6/3/2020
/ Colleges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
NLRA ,
Protected Activity ,
Return-to-Work Agreements ,
Risk Mitigation ,
School Districts ,
Universities
Notwithstanding California's strong public policy in favor of lawful competitive behavior, California employees' duty of loyalty to their current employer reigns supreme. A violation of that duty can lead to costly jury...more
3/5/2018
/ Breach of Contract ,
Competition ,
Confidential Information ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Conflicts of Interest ,
Drones ,
Duty of Loyalty ,
Engineering ,
Former Employee ,
Former Employer ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Jury Verdicts ,
Misappropriation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Proprietary Information ,
Public Policy ,
Punitive Damages ,
Trade Secrets
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has just added two new employment ordinances to the burgeoning list of employment-related ordinances in the City by the Bay. First, the Parity in Pay Ordinance prohibits employers from...more
7/21/2017
/ Breastfeeding ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Local Ordinance ,
Pay Gap ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Salary/Wage History ,
San Francisco ,
Undue Hardship ,
Wage and Hour
On June 26, 2014, the California Supreme Court decided that an employee may proceed with a discrimination lawsuit even though he presented false work authorization documents to obtain employment in the first place....more