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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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California Expands Prohibition on Certain Nondisclosure and Non-Disparagement Clauses in Settlement, Separation, and Certain Other...

Key Points - On January 1, 2022, SB 331—also known as the Silenced No More Act—went into effect in California. It prohibits clauses, in settlement agreements for civil or administrative claims, which prevent or restrict the...more

2/2/2022 / Corporate Counsel , Employer Liability Issues , Employment Contract , FEHA , Non-Disparagement Provisions , Settlement Agreements , Severance Agreements , State Labor Laws

Not So Fast: Trial Courts Finding PAGA’s Statute of Limitations Is Still Alive and Well After Johnson v. Maxim Healthcare

Earlier this year, the California Court of Appeal ruled that a plaintiff was permitted to pursue a PAGA claim for alleged violations of Labor Code Section 432.5, even though the statute of limitations on her individual claim...more

10/18/2021 / Corporate Counsel , Employer Liability Issues , Labor Code , Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) , State Labor Laws , Statute of Limitations , Wage and Hour

California Supreme Court Holds That Unpaid Wages Are Not Recoverable Under PAGA

• On September 12, 2019, in ZB, N.A. v. Superior Court (Lawson), Case No. S246711, the California Supreme Court held the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) does not allow recovery of unpaid wages under Labor Code Section...more

9/16/2019 / Arbitration , CA Supreme Court , Civil Monetary Penalty , Corporate Counsel , Employer Liability Issues , Labor Code , Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) , Split of Authority , Unpaid Wages , Wage and Hour

9th Circuit Approves Neutral Rounding of Time

If you read one thing... - In Corbin v. Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership, the Ninth Circuit held that both federal and California law permit employer to round employees’ time punches to the...more

5/5/2016 / Corporate Counsel , Employment Policies , Rounding , Time Cards , Time Warner , Wage and Hour

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