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Fox Rothschild LLP

Is Waiting In Your Car Compensable Working Time? California Supreme Court Will Decide

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I have blogged many times on security check cases and whether that waiting time is compensable. It continues to be a thorny issue and pops up in many jurisdictions. In an interesting variation on this theme, the California...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

AMN Healthcare’s impact on the enforceability of non-solicitation provisions in California raises two new unanswered questions

California Employee mobility and the right to compete are sacrosanct in California, and have been since its Legislature enacted section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code, which voids “every contract by...more

Vedder Price

Harrison M. Thorne Publishes "Retroactive Application of Dynamex," in The Los Angeles Lawyer, March 2019, Volume 42, No. 1

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FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, California businesses have used the Borello test (so named after S.G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations) to determine whether workers should be classified as employees or...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

California Employers Reminded that Failure to Provide "Suitable Seating" Could Prove Costly

Since 2009, many large retailers in California have been sued for failing to provide “suitable seating” in accordance with the state’s wage orders. Some of those employers have recently been forced to pay significant...more

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Pull up a Chair: California Supreme Court Weighs in on Suitable Seating

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To sit or not to sit, that is the question. And now the California Supreme Court has given us an answer. Well, sort of. They have told us how to find the answer. Even that’s a stretch. Pull up a seat and I will explain. ...more

BakerHostetler

California Supreme Court Tells Employers to Sit a Spell While Courts Review Individual Factors for Suitable Seating

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“Shut the door. Have a seat.” The phrase immediately conjures emotions from the recipient. Most likely, life-changing (typically bad) news is about to be imparted. For Mad Men fans, it harkens to the third-season finale when...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

To Seat, or Not to Seat: That is the Question

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Seats must be provided for each location where the work reasonably permits. It started like a bad joke. A cashier and a bank teller walk into a bar—actually, a federal court served by the Bar—and sue...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Sitting on the Job: When California Employers Must Provide Seats

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Employees are entitled to sit at work when the nature of the work reasonably permits the use of seats. On April 4, 2016, the California Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Justice Carol A. Corrigan, clarified...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Question #275: Can We Take A Stand On Employees Sitting?

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Question: Some of our retail company’s employees in California are demanding chairs to sit in while they work. Management thinks it appears unprofessional to have workers sitting, but I hear the employees might have a legal...more

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