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New Law Provides Injunctive Relief to Workers Facing Whistleblower Retaliation
October 25, 2017 by Christopher Hammer
California law prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who report labor law violations, but the remedies available to victims of retaliation can sometimes be inadequate. Governor Brown has now signed into law SB 306 which… Read More
California Greatly Expands Availability of Maternity and Paternity Leave
October 19, 2017 by John C. Provost
Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation last week that will greatly expand the number of employees to whom employers must offer maternity and paternity leave.Under current law, the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) – as its… Read More
Court Rejects Employer Objections to LAX “Labor Peace Agreements”
September 20, 2017 by Christopher Hammer
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the City of Los Angeles’s policy requiring employers doing business at LAX to enter into “Labor Peace Agreements” as a condition of doing business at the airport…. Read More
Labor Day 2017: A Look to the Future (Part Three)
September 4, 2017 by Andrew Baker
In the first two pieces in this series, we took a look at labor’s past, going all the way back to 1877. We’ve seen that starting with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947,… Read More
Labor Day 2017: A Look to the Past (Part Two)
by Andrew Baker
In the first installment of this piece, we looked at the Great Strike of 1877 and the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of the National Labor Relations Act in 1937. Passage of the NLRA in 1935… Read More
Labor Day 2017: A Look to the Past (Part One)
September 1, 2017 by Andrew Baker
Labor Day traditionally is the time to reflect on the state of the American labor movement, and Labor Day 2017 brings an opportunity to mark the anniversaries of several events in American history instrumental to… Read More
Ninth Circuit Slams Lawyer Who Contacted ICE to Retaliate Against and Intimidate Employee
August 19, 2017 by Stephanie Platenkamp & Robert Bonsall
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an excellent decision ruling that attorneys who engage in unlawful retaliatory action against employees who bring wage and hour claims may be held individually liable for the… Read More
Court Rejects Classification of Employee as Trainee
July 10, 2017 by Stephanie Platenkamp
A California appellate court has issued a decision that emphasizes the narrow circumstances under which a worker may be treated as an unpaid “trainee” and confirms that nonmonetary benefits may not be attributed to employee… Read More
New Law Mandates Union Access to New Employee Orientation In Public Sector
July 3, 2017 by Susan Garea
AB 119 AB 119 (codified at California Government Code §§ 3555-3559) requires California’s public employers to provide unions mandatory access to new bargaining unit employees at orientation. It also requires the prompt provision of contact… Read More
California Supreme Court Clarifies When Employees are Entitled to a “Day of Rest”
May 25, 2017 by Lorrie Bradley
The California Labor Code contains a requirement that generally prohibits employees from working “more than six days in seven,” with certain exceptions. For example, the requirement that employees have one day’s rest in seven excludes… Read More
