The constitutionality of California’s felony forfeiture statute, as applied by the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), survived yet another challenge in September 2023,...more
On November 30, 2020, Cal/OSHA implemented new emergency temporary standards (“ETS”) to prevent the spread of COVID-19....more
Please join our Public Pensions & Investments Group for our webinar, "Legal Consequences of Shelter-in-Place Orders and Beyond for Public Pensions Systems," on May 7, 2020.
As COVID-19 continues to transform the private...more
4/28/2020
/ Construction Industry ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Investment Management ,
Investors ,
Private Funds ,
Public Pension ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Remote Working ,
Retirement ,
Retirement Funds ,
Retirement Plan ,
Trustees ,
Webinars
Latest update on 09.21.2021
Emergency declarations – including a California state-wide stay at home order – and a variety of executive and health orders issued from federal, state, county, and city authorities in response to...more
3/31/2020
/ Business Closures ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
EFMLA ,
EPSLA ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
Relief Measures ,
Shelter-In-Place ,
Sick Leave ,
Sick Pay ,
State and Local Government ,
Trump Administration ,
WARN Act
Last Update: 3/25/2020 at 12:00 p.m.
Emergency declarations – including a California state-wide stay at home order – and a variety of executive and health orders issued from federal, state, county, and city authorities in...more
Make sure your organization is in compliance in the New Year by joining Nossaman attorneys John Kennedy and Allison Callaghan for a discussion of new California employment laws and regulations, as well as recent case law...more
12/20/2018
/ ADEA ,
Continuing Education ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Lactation Accommodation ,
National Origin Discrimination ,
NLRA ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
In the latest twist in California’s pending vested rights litigation, parties on all sides of Alameda County Deputy Sheriff’s Assn. et al v. Alameda County Employees’ Retirement Assn., et al. (2018) 19 Cal.App.5th 61...more
Don't miss this important annual employment law update! Please join us for this complimentary seminar on cutting-edge employment law issues. The 2018 employment landscape is significantly different and this seminar will...more
ADA Title III Litigation Continues to Increase -
Over the last two years, there have been an increasing number of lawsuits filed over the alleged failure of websites to accommodate persons with disabilities. According to a...more
1/8/2018
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dominos ,
Internet ,
Public Accommodation ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
Unfortunately, 2017 will most likely be remembered as the Year of Sexual Harassment. Notwithstanding that AB 1825 mandated harassment prevention training in California in 2004, the statute was amended to require training on...more
On October 14, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown announced that he had signed Assembly Bill 1008, which prohibits most California public and private employers from asking applicants about criminal conviction history until after a...more
Effective January 1, 2018, new legislation enacted in California will prohibit employers from:
Seeking past salary information, including compensation and benefits, about a job applicant; or,
Relying on...more
Effective July 1, 2017, new regulations from the California Fair Employment and Housing Council will further limit an employer’s ability to consider the criminal history of a job applicant or employee when making employment...more
6/19/2017
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Background Checks ,
Ban the Box ,
Conditional Job Offers ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Criminal Records ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Marijuana
In a landmark decision, the Seventh Circuit recently held that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of actionable sex discrimination under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unlike the...more
On February 15, 2017, the California Court of Appeal in Blair v. Dole Food Company, Inc. clarified existing law regarding what information must be included on employee wage statements....more
On March 20, 2017, a federal district judge in the Central District of California issued a big win for businesses dealing with the recent onslaught of website accessibility litigation – claims that a business’s website is not...more
4/7/2017
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dominos ,
Due Process ,
Internet ,
Public Accommodation ,
Technology ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
In a major development impacting all public entities subject to the California Public Records Act (Gov. Code § 6250 et seq., hereafter “CPRA”), on March 2, 2017, the California Supreme Court unanimously held that public...more
On November 22, 2016, we reported on Judge Mazzant’s nationwide injunction which prevented the Department of Labor (DOL) from implementing its new overtime rules on December 1, 2016. [Link to EAlert] In issuing the...more
12/13/2016
/ Appeals ,
Briefing Schedule ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Minimum Salary ,
Motion to Expedite ,
Over-Time ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
Judge Amos Mazzant, a Texas federal district court judge, just issued a nationwide injunction which stops the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rules from taking effect as scheduled on December 1. Twenty-one...more
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled on a matter involving “perceived affiliation”, bringing clarity to the matter, where the circuits provided discordant rulings. As a result, personnel actions based upon even mistaken...more
10/31/2016
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Demotions ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Freedom of Association ,
Heffernan v City of Paterson ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Mistake of Fact ,
Political Campaigns ,
Political Expression ,
Public Employees ,
Retaliation ,
SCOTUS ,
Summary Judgment
San Francisco has become the first U.S. jurisdiction at any level to decree fully paid parental leave for parents to bond with their child. California currently provides six weeks of partially paid leave through the state...more
On May 17, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued two final rules relating to how employer-sponsored wellness programs may comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic...more
In a unanimous opinion addressing a legal issue of statewide importance, the California Supreme Court resolved a split of authority and held that a governmental entity’s inadvertent release of privileged documents under the...more
Please join us for this complimentary presentation on cutting-edge employment law issues! California and federal employment laws are constantly developing and evolving so it is essential for human resource professionals and...more
Please join us for this complimentary presentation on cutting-edge employment law issues! California and federal employment laws are constantly developing and evolving so it is essential for human resource professionals and...more