Join CDF Partners Mark S. Spring and Tashayla Billington for a focused webinar on key NLRB developments since January, including the impact to employers from past and future Board Member composition changes, NLRB General Counsel…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On July 1, 2025, the California Attorney General’s (AG) Office announced a record-setting $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, a prominent provider of health and wellness information and operator of Healthline.com –…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy
Senate Bill 844, also known as The Faster Labor Contracts Act was introduced in March 2025. As labor relations matters continue to stagnate before the quorum-less National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), this new bill is…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
The First District Court of Appeal’s recently published decision, Allison v. Dignity Health, is a win for employers holding that broad reliance on time-clock data and expert surveys is insufficient to sustain class-wide…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
On July 1, 2025 new increased minimum wage rates will be effective in many California cities and counties. Many municipalities are increasing the minimum wage across the board, and others have industry-specific increases…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Most California employers do not get investigated by the United States Department of Labor (“USDOL”) because wage and hour enforcement in California is generally covered by the California Labor Commissioner and plaintiffs in…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
On June 13, 2025, a California Court of Appeal struck down an arbitration agreement because of unconscionable terms entered by the parties in a separate employment agreement, governing different dispute resolution fora and…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Sometimes employers are subject to multiple collective bargaining agreements (CBA’s) that allow different unions to perform the same work for the employer. When this issue arises, the employer cannot resolve the dispute without…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Labor & Employment Law
As we have all seen in the news, employers everywhere, and especially in California, are experiencing a marked uptick in workplace immigration enforcement activity. ICE audits and unannounced raids can occur without warning,…
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/ Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
As businesses integrate AI tools into operations, a spike in related litigation is no surprise, especially due to the lack of formal legal precedent. Last month, a federal court in the Northern District of California provided…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 5, 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, rejecting a longstanding rule applied by the Sixth Circuit and other circuit courts that imposed a…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
On May 13, 2025, Cal/OSHA issued a new draft of its proposed Workplace Violence Prevention in General Industry regulation, which updates its previously issued July 15, 2024 version. This May 2025 version incorporates advisory…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
Last month, the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (“the Privacy Police”) and Todd Snyder, Inc. (“Snyder”) resolved the investigation into Snyder’s website’s opt-out methods from November 1, 2023 to…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into employment decision-making has revolutionized how companies recruit, evaluate, and manage employees. These high-functioning AI tools are capable of screening job applications,…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 1, 2025, new increased minimum wage rates will go into effect in many California cities and counties. Local governments have looked to offset the effects of inflation and have decided to use minimum wage ordinances to…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
