On October 8, 2025, Governor Newsom signed SB 642 into law, known as the Pay Equity Enforcement Act, which significantly amends California’s Equal Pay and Pay Transparency laws by broadening key definitions, extending the...more
In Martinho v. Amazon, Inc., a federal court analyzed which of Amazon’s new hire activities were compensable under California law, ultimately finding that activities designed to verify employment eligibility were not...more
Last week, in Chavez v. Hi-Grade Materials Co., the California Court of Appeal took up a novel jurisdictional question: Can a putative class action plaintiff unilaterally ring the death knell for the entire class and create...more
In Lui v. DeJoy, the Ninth Circuit held that a woman of Chinese ethnicity’s demotion, when coupled with a white male replacing her position, gave rise to an inference of discrimination. The employer’s investigation into the...more
In Villalva v. Bombardier Mass Transit Corp., employees Mark Villalva and Bobby Jason Yelverton initially filed a claim for unpaid wages relating to on-call pay with the Labor Commissioner’s office, who denied their claim and...more