On April 23, 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order (“EO”) entitled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” which aims to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
According to the Los Angeles Times, a retiring “prison supervising dentist” became a millionaire overnight when the state paid him $1.2 million for unused vacation benefits that he had been accruing for decades. This mammoth…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
As we reported here, a split in authority has developed in the California Court of Appeal regarding what to do when an employer moves to compel arbitration of a Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) that is “headless”—that is, a…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
On April 7, 2025, the California Court of Appeal reversed a whopping $10 million verdict in favor of an employee in a sexual harassment case due to the trial judge’s improper evidentiary rulings and inappropriate comments during…
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/ Civil Procedure, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
We invite you to review our newly-posted, March 2025 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Labor & Employment Law
As we have reported time and again, California courts have applied extra scrutiny to employee arbitration agreements in recent years, and have not hesitated to deny arbitration where there is a reasonable basis for doing so. …
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Labor & Employment Law
Although the threat of COVID-19 (remember that?) seems to have diminished considerably over the past five years, once upon a time in Hollywood many production companies (along with other employers) required employees to be…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Constitutional Law, Health, Labor & Employment Law
On February 26, 2025, in Parra Rodriguez v. Packers Sanitation, Inc., the California Court of Appeal (Fourth Appellate District) issued the latest published decision addressing the practice of filing so-called “headless” Private…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
As California private employers of 100 or more employees and/or 100 or more workers hired through labor contractors may know, it is time to annually report pay, demographic, and other workforce data to the Civil Rights…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
In late 2023, California supersized the minimum wage for fast food workers by a whopping 25 percent (increasing it from $16 to $20). This law was opposed by the fast food industry, while labor unions (and their many friends and…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
The California Court of Appeal recently reminded employers in an unpublished (but nonetheless chastening) opinion of the importance of carefully drafting arbitration agreements. In Pich v. LaserAway, LLC et al, the court…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
The California Court of Appeal dealt another blow to arbitration, just months after we reported the last such decision here.
This time, the Court ruled that the federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
We invite you to review our newly-posted January 2025 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
As we reported here, California’s Senate Bill (S.B.) 399, took effect on January 1, 2025. This law prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend meetings about the company’s opinions on political or religious matters,…
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/ Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Wildfires continue to rage across Southern California, leveling entire neighborhoods, forcing evacuations for tens of thousands of people, and posing incredible hardship on businesses and their employees..…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
