Employers that face lawsuits from employees often seek to move such claims from the courthouse to arbitration. But what happens if the trial court refuses to compel arbitration and the employer appeals the decision? Should...more
The hyper-technical nature of California’s wage statement laws, embodied in Labor Code section 226, have made violations of this law a favorite of the plaintiffs’ bar for class and representative actions under the Private...more
The long-fought bag-check battle against Apple is coming to an end, and the employee class just won a major victory in California when a federal court of appeals ruled that the company must pay its workers for the time spent...more
Supreme Court decisions are often the most challenging pieces of legal guidance to understand. They are rarely straightforward and usually contain so much analysis that it becomes hard to get to the bottom of what was...more
8/10/2020
/ ADEA ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Babb v Wilkie ,
Benefit Plan Sponsors ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Comcast Corp. v National Association of African American-Owned Media ,
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Confidential Information ,
Contraceptive Coverage Mandate ,
Corporate Counsel ,
DACA ,
Department of Homeland Security v Regents of the University of California ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma ,
LGBTQ ,
Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v Pennsylvania ,
Ministerial Exception ,
Our Lady of Guadalupe School v Morrissey-Berru ,
Race Discrimination ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Religious Institutions ,
Retirement Plan ,
SCOTUS ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Trade Secrets ,
Transgender ,
Trump Administration
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court just held that the time spent by employees waiting for and undergoing security checks of bags and other personal items is compensable time under California law, even when...more
2/15/2020
/ Apple ,
Bright-Line Rule ,
CA Supreme Court ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Litigation ,
Integrity Staffing v Busk ,
Security Checks ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Orders
In an unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court held today that California’s law requiring one day of rest in seven looks only at the employer’s defined workweek when determining the applicable period of time to be...more
On Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to extend Title VII’s protections to sexual orientation discrimination, but reinforced that employees may allege sex discrimination claims when they face workplace...more
3/15/2017
/ Appeals ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Split of Authority ,
Title VII