California courts and legislature have been pummeling employers’ ability to require comprehensive arbitration agreements. Well, the federal government has now joined in. In an astounding rare example of legislative...more
We don’t know about you, but we don’t feel like it’s the holidays until there are fancy tree and menorah displays in every office lobby around town, a plethora of chocolate and cookie assortments multiplying daily in the...more
12/10/2019
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Among the many legislative bills signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on his way out of office, no less than five of them take aim at preventing sexual harassment and depriving bad actions from being covered up. The...more
As we previously shared in our October 17, 2018, client alert, amendments to Government Code Section 12950.1 require that all California employers having five or more employees are required to provide sexual harassment and...more
The recently published California case of Camacho v. Target has highlighted an often misunderstood issue in the world of employment law settlements. ...more
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) announced last week that it will commence random telephone interviews of employers about their anti-harassment and diversity policies. An outgrowth of the DFEH’s...more
The #MeToo movement. The #TimesUp movement. Icons of media and industry brought down by sexual harassment scandals that date back years and decades. All this has led to much discussion in state legislatures, in legal circles,...more