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California Employment News: Document Checklist for Departing Employees
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Employer Strategies for Navigating RIFs: One-on-One with Ann Knuckles Mahoney
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Presumably, the decision must have seemed reasonable to the employer at the time. It was 2010, and Romeo Mendoza, a nurse and mid-level supervisor at Western Medical Center Santa Ana (known as Orange County Global Medical...more
Join us for a lively discussion of critical year-end updates for California employers. We will address new legislation and key case rulings. Topics include: - Key bills relating to freelance workers, “captive audience”...more
The arbitration award stemmed from the pro se complaint of Joseph Ruzindana for wrongful termination against his former employer, FCA US. In the arbitration, Ruzindana claimed that he was harassed and discriminated against by...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (“EFAA”) renders arbitration agreements unenforceable with regard to claims of sexual assault and sexual harassment....more
It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more
Over the last decade, the use of e-signatures has become the norm for human resources departments when onboarding new employees. The advent of resources like DocuSign, Taleo, BabooHR, and others have made this process simple,...more
The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more
Join us on November 16, 2023, as Nossaman’s Allison Callaghan, Pavneet Singh Mac, Michelle McCarthy and Julia Botezatu discuss new California employment and employee benefits laws and regulations, as well as recent case law...more
In Payne v. Savannah College of Art and Design Inc., the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order denying a motion to compel arbitration of plaintiff Isaac Payne’s discrimination-based claims. The...more
We are halfway through 2023 so it is a good time to look back on this year’s employment law developments so far and look forward to what lies ahead. What follows is a short overview of the legal changes that we are monitoring...more
The Supreme Court’s blockbuster decisions last term dominated the headlines – and many rulings will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an...more
Employers are facing new and evolving pressures as they navigate economic uncertainty. This leads to questions and concerns about managing their workforces with minimal disruption and in a way that mitigates risk from...more
An arbitrator recently issued the first award in Ontario to address and uphold the reasonableness of a hospital vaccination policy that provides for the termination of employment for non-compliance. In Lakeridge Health and...more
Summer’s the time to sit back and relax and catch up on some light reading you’ve been meaning to get to. And what better way to spend time poolside or at the beach than to scroll through some links from Fisher Phillips? Here...more
On April 19, 2023, the California Court of Appeal held that an employer’s arbitration agreement was unenforceable because of unconscionable terms found in other documents provided to employees during the onboarding process....more
In Corporation of the City of Calgary v Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 583, 2023 CanLII 20867 (AB GAA), Arbitrator James T. Casey dismissed the union’s grievance of an employee’s job termination, finding that his off-duty...more
Last year, we wrote about former National Football League coach Brian Flores and his lawsuit in February 2022 alleging racial discrimination against the NFL and several of its teams. In his lawsuit, Flores claimed that the...more
On March 7, 2023, in Dakota Powell vs. Prime Comms Retail LLC, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that a former employee must arbitrate her claims of race discrimination, rather than pursue them in court due to her...more
As of February 15, 2023, employers in California may once again require mandatory arbitration as the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts Assembly Bill 51 (AB 51), a...more
Avid readers of Stokes Wagner’s legal updates may be familiar with California’s Assembly Bill 51, a law that, until very recently, prohibited California employers from requiring employees or job applicants to sign arbitration...more
In a significant win for California employers, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Chamber of Commerce v. Bonta,1 affirmed a district court injunction striking down California Assembly Bill 51 (“AB 51”) as preempted by the...more
In 2022, Canada saw significant statutory and case law developments in labour and employment law, some of which related to COVID-19. This Insight provides an overview of key 2022 developments, with links to more detailed...more
Summary - Where an employer can and does track the exact time in minutes that its employees work each shift, and those records show that employees were not paid for all the time they worked, neutral time rounding is not a...more
U.S. Department of Labor Publishes Proposed Rule on Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act - On October 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule updating the...more
Join us for our third annual all-day complimentary seminar on the most pressing employment law topics, transmitted to you in your home, office, or virtually anywhere with an internet connection. Attendees can enjoy one or all...more