Any employment dispute can put your business at risk. Not only can a lawsuit significantly damage your reputation among customers and prospective employees, but the cost of these disputes can also significantly impact your bottom line. Because of this, it is important...
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U.S. Supreme Court protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed a victory to gay, lesbian and transgender employees in California. The Court concluded that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects members of the LGBTQ community from workplace discrimination. Employers terminated gay and...
What is age discrimination?
Many employers in California are vigilant about ensuring their staff is trained to prevent sexual harassment, religious discrimination and other well-known forms of discrimination and harassment on the job. When compared to the rights of LGBT workers, pregnant...
Watch Out! Federal Appeals Court Holds Dynamex Applies Retroactively
As this newsletter has discussed before, last year, the California Supreme Court changed the way employers can identify their workers. In Dynamex v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court radically altered the test that applies to determine whether a worker must...
Understanding what constitutes religious discrimination
Unfortunately, the workplace can play host to many forms of discrimination, but one of the more insidious types is religious discrimination. No matter the industry or job title, California workers of all kinds are recommended to know and recognize the forms that...
California Law Significantly Expands’ Employer’s Obligation to Provide Employees with Sexual Harassment Training
For more than a decade prior to 2019, California law only obligated relatively large employers with fifty or more employees to provide sexual harassment training to just supervisory level employees. Beginning this year, California law dramatically expanded these...
“On Call” Employees Must Be Paid For Calling In To See If They Are Required To Work
In February 2019, the California Court of Appeals held that an employer must compensate employees a minimum of two hours of pay if they are required to call in to work prior to their shift to see if they are scheduled to work that day. In Ward v. Tilly's Inc., the...
Ninth Circuit Delivers Justice, And A Serving Of Cold Pizza, In Latest ADA Ruling
The Americans with Disabilities Act (the "ADA") established a national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Title III of the ADA entitles all individuals to the "full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services,...
2019 Revision of California Civil Code Section 1542
2019 Revision of California Civil Code Section 1542 Requires Updates to Releases and Separation Agreements When formally settling a legal claim with another party in California, the typical and preferred course of action is to obtain a release of all known and unknown...
Don’t Press Your Luck With Press Releases Regarding Pending Company Lawsuits
Because Southern California companies have enough to worry about what with employment lawsuits, traffic, and the ever-present possibility of a light sprinkle, it is crucial to avoid any mistakes that could expose your company to liability in the dissemination of a...