Summary: The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act applies not just to sexual assault and sexual harassment claims, but to all claims asserted in the “case.”...more
Summary - To qualify as a transportation worker for purposes of the FAA, an employee’s relationship to the movement of goods must be sufficiently close enough to conclude that the employee’s work plays a tangible and...more
An issue that has long plagued employers in California is whether time an employee spends on the employer’s premises making their way to or from their worksite is compensable. We have seen a spike in lawsuits raising this...more
Existing law prohibits a person from discharging an employee or in any manner discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant...more
1/10/2024
/ Disclosure Requirements ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Fast-Food Industry ,
Harassment ,
Health and Safety ,
Labor Code ,
Minimum Wage ,
OSHA ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Retaliation ,
Sick Leave ,
Unfair Competition ,
Wage and Hour
The California Office of Administrative Law recently approved the Civil Rights Council’s amendments to regulations in the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) that govern employer inquiries into and consideration of a job...more
8/23/2023
/ California ,
Conditional Job Offers ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Evidence ,
FEHA ,
Job Ads ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Regulations ,
Mitigating Factors ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Summary -
An employer must accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs unless it can show that doing so would “result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business.” ...more
On Aug. 29, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued its decision in Tesla, Inc., 371 NLRB No. 131 (2022), one of the first major decisions by the now Democratic-controlled board to overrule a decision from...more
9/12/2022
/ Dress Codes ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Section 7 ,
Tesla ,
Uniforms ,
Union Insignia ,
Unions ,
Wal-Mart