Advising And Defending California Businesses
If you’re doing business in California, you probably don’t need an employment lawyer to tell you that the state legislature continues to pass very employee-protective labor laws. Two more are about to take effect on July 1, 2017, that will affect businesses regulated...
On June 14, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board in UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside held that an employer may bar nonemployees from soliciting its employees on behalf of a union on company property that is open to the public, provided the employer applies its policy...
On June 19, 2020, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District in Olabi v. Neutron Holdings, Inc. affirmed a trial court’s order denying an employer’s petition to compel arbitration of a lawsuit alleging that the plaintiff and other workers had been...
On June 15, 2020, the U. S. Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia held that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Court explained that because discrimination on the...
Effective July 1, 2017, new regulations adopted by the California Fair Employment and Housing Council (FEHC) will restrict an employer’s ability to inquire about or consider the criminal history of applicants and employees, except where specifically...
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court in Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis held that an employee’s failure to file a charge with the EEOC alleging discrimination on the basis of her religion was not fatal to her lawsuit alleging religious discrimination against...
On May 28, 2021, a court of appeal in Usher v. White affirmed summary judgment in favor of the individual owner of a business who had been sued for alleged wage and hour violations under California law. In 2014, the plaintiffs commenced a wage-and-hour class action...
On May 24, 2019, a California court of appeal in Dane-Elec Corp. v. Bodokh reversed an award of attorney’s fees to an employer that prevailed on its complaint against its former chief executive officer to recover on a promissory note, and on the cross-complaint...
On May 28, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated and expanded its technical assistance related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The EEOC answers COVID-19 questions from the perspective of the federal EEO laws and in its update, addresses the...
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from implementing five provisions of the rule changes it announced in December 2019. On June 1, 2020, the NLRB published a news release stating that “it...