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Employer Liability Issues Breach of Contract Arbitration Agreements

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Start the Clock—The Case for Including Contractual Limitations Periods in Employment Agreements.

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Contractual limitations periods provide parties on both sides of an agreement certainty regarding the filing of a potential action. But many employers do not know that they may include such contractual limitations periods in...more

McManis Faulkner

California Employment Law Update for 2020

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The California Legislature enacted a number of new laws for 2020 that will affect California businesses.  Below we discuss a few of the most notable employment laws that go into effect in the New Year.  Companies with a...more

Fenwick & West LLP

California’s New AB 51 Guts Mandatory Employment Arbitration

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 10 signed into law Assembly Bill 51. The new law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, outlaws forced arbitration of a significant majority of claims employees and former employees can...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

New California Law Makes Employers' Use of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements More Perilous

California has once again passed pro-employee legislation, this time making it increasingly challenging for California employers to use mandatory arbitration agreements, including one containing a class waiver. Absent limited...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

California Prohibits Mandatory Employment Arbitration

California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed AB 51 into law, which means that effective January 1, 2010, employers will (purportedly) be prohibited from requiring employees to consent to mandatory arbitration of employment...more

Fisher Phillips

Pay Your California Arbitration Fees On Time – Or Else!

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When it comes to paying your arbitration fees in whole and on time, the stakes for California employers just got more serious. Under legislation just signed by Governor Newsom, a drafting party that fails to pay arbitration...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

How Not To Write An Employment Agreement Arbitration Clause: Court Of Appeal Rejects One Sided Clause As Procedurally And...

In Carlson v. Home Team Pest Defense, Inc. (Ct. of Appeal A142219), published August 17, 2015, the Court of Appeal held that an employer’s arbitration clause which allowed only the employer to file lawsuits for certain...more

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