In a prior article, we explained Senate Bill 95, which requires employers with more than 25 employees in California to provide COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick leave... SB 95 creates California Labor Code Sections 248.2 and...more
3/30/2021
/ California ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Employees ,
Covered Employer ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Code ,
Medical Certification Requests ,
Paid Sick Leave Act ,
Retroactivity ,
State and Local Government ,
State Legislatures ,
Supplemental Benefits
In a landmark opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Title VII’s prohibition of employment discrimination based on sex applies to both sexual orientation and gender identity...more
6/18/2020
/ Altitude Express Inc v Zarda ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
EEOC v RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
On April 29, 2020, the City of Los Angeles passed the COVID-19 Worker Retention Ordinance to protect workers amid the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic by requiring certain businesses within the City to adhere to...more
On April 29, 2020, the City of Los Angeles issued a new ordinance, entitled “COVID-19 Right of Recall,” that requires covered employers in Los Angeles to offer priority hiring for laid off rank and file workers, and to allow...more
Los Angeles County enacted an ordinance requiring employers with 500 or more employees nationally and that are not otherwise covered by the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Governor Newsom’s Executive Order...more
Furloughs. Layoffs. Loss of work visas. The state of employment in the U.S. is in flux due to the coronavirus, and employers and employees are left to figure out how to best deal with the changing regulations in this...more
4/30/2020
/ CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
F-1 Visa ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Foreign Students ,
Foreign Workers ,
Furloughs ,
Layoffs ,
Relief Measures ,
Work Visas
California and Los Angeles currently require covered employers to provide eligible employees with paid sick leave benefits. Effective immediately, the City of Los Angeles now requires employers that have either 500 or more...more
4/9/2020
/ Ballot Measures ,
CARES Act ,
City of Los Angeles ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Delivery Drivers ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Local Ordinance ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Leave ,
Popular ,
San Diego ,
Sick Leave ,
Small Business ,
Wage and Hour
Massachusetts issued a revised Essential Services and Revised Gatherings Order that goes into effect at noon on March 24, 2020... The Order requires that all businesses and organizations that do NOT provide “COVID-19...more
Ohio issued a Stay at Home Order that goes into effect at 11:59 p.m. on March 23, 2020. It will remain in effect until 11:59 p.m. on April 6, 2020, unless rescinded or modified...more
The California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act (Labor Code Section 1400 et seq.) sets forth procedural requirements that a covered employer must follow prior to a mass layoff, relocation, or...more
Sheppard Mullin is committed to providing employers with updated information regarding the Coronavirus/COVID-19 and its impact on the workplace. In light of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration this week that...more
As the number of confirmed positive cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19” or “coronavirus”) in the U.S. continues to rise, employers must prepare for issues that will inevitably arise as the virus spreads. While the...more
3/3/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Best Practices ,
Cal-OSHA ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employment Policies ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Influenza ,
OSHA ,
Workplace Safety
Enacted in 1963, the Equal Pay Act prohibits differential payments between male and female employees doing equal work except when made pursuant to a seniority system, a merit system, a system which measures earnings by...more
4/11/2018
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Bright-Line Rule ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
En Banc Review ,
Equal Pay Act ,
FEHA ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Interlocutory Appeals ,
Job Applicants ,
Motion for Summary Judgment ,
Reversal ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
The White House Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) has indefinitely stayed the deadline for compliance with the new Employer Information Report (EEO-1 Form) for collection of annual pay and hours worked information. As...more
In Luis Castro-Ramirez v. Dependable Highway Express, the California Court of Appeal held that California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) – which requires employers to reasonably accommodate employees with...more