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Firearms in the Workplace

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In 2021, there was a mass shooting at a high school in Michigan in which four students were killed. As a result of this shooting, not only was the shooter prosecuted, but the parents of the shooter were charged with criminal...more

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Employer Take Home Test: California Supreme Court To Consider Employer Liability For So-Called Take Home COVID-19

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COVID-19-related litigation remains on the frontline as the California Supreme Court agreed to decide, in Corby Kuciemba et al. v. Victory Woodworks Inc., case number S274191, whether employers may be liable for COVID-19...more

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Beware! – Illinois Employers Can Be Liable For An Employee’s Negligence

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Courts in the United States are split on whether a company’s acknowledgment of vicarious liability for an employee’s negligence, bars a claim of direct negligence against the company. Based on appellate court decisions,...more

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Early COVID-19 Liability Suits Raise Employment Practices Liability Insurance Issues

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced employers across the country to rapidly make numerous and significant decisions about how to manage their business in this unprecedented time. Employers have had to quickly develop and...more

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California Supreme Court Holds that Payroll Services Provider ADP Cannot Be Sued for Breach of Contract, Negligence, and Negligent...

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Can an employee sue the employer’s payroll service for failure to correctly process and report payroll? According to the California Supreme Court recent decision in Goonewardene v. ADP, LLC (2019) 6 Cal.5th 817, the answer...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

California Snapshot: Payroll Company Not Liable For Alleged Wage-Hour Violations Of Employer

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At least, not directly. Can an employee sue her employer’s payroll services provider for alleged violations of California’s wage and hour laws? According to a recent decision from the California Supreme Court, the answer...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Supreme Court Prevents Employees’ Tort and Contract Claims Against Employers’ Payroll Companies

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In Goonewardene v. ADP, LLC (S238941), the California Supreme Court has created new protections for payroll companies in lawsuits involving claims of labor violations. Although previous case law has held that employees with...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Supreme Court Announces a Win for Payroll Outsourcing Industry

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Last week, the California State Supreme Court struck a decisive victory in favor of payroll companies, issuing a unanimous opinion that an employee is not a third-party beneficiary of the contract between her employer and its...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

California Supreme Court Holds that Employee Cannot Bring Wage Claims Against Payroll Service Provider

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• The California Supreme Court recently held that an employee could not pursue contract and tort claims against a payroll service provider for unpaid wages. • The Court found that (1) an employee was not a “third-party...more

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Termination Pay Penalties: Easy To Incur, Impossible To Reduce?

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers must pay “waiting time” penalties for willfully failing to timely pay wages due upon termination. Last week the California Court of Appeal dealt employers a double whammy: (i) mere negligence can...more

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