Time to Revise Your Job Applications: Oregon Prohibits Salary History...
“Equal pay for equal work.” Everyone – employees and employers alike – can agree that no workers should be paid less than others simply because of their gender, race, veteran status, or any other...
View ArticleWashington State to Consider Paid Family Leave
Last week, representatives of the business community and employee groups completed negotiations to create a paid family and medical leave insurance program in Washington. Many details need to be worked...
View ArticleBreaking News: Oregon Legislature Passes Employee Scheduling Bill
Oregon is poised to become the first state to enact a “secure scheduling” or “fair work week” law that will impose significant new employee scheduling requirements on certain categories of large...
View ArticleOregon Amends Sick Leave Law: 5 Key Clarifications
Oregon recently passed amendments to its statewide sick time law, clearing up several areas of uncertainty for employers. The amendments clarify that: Employers may cap employees’ annual accrual of...
View ArticleCalifornia Court of Appeal Puts a Small Crack in the Glass Door
An employer who unfairly and inaccurately is slammed by a former employee (or maybe even a current employee!) on a job-posting or employer-rating website will often look to its lawyer for help. Surely...
View ArticleThe Washington Supreme Court Addresses Meal Break Claims
The Washington Supreme Court case Brady v. Autozone recently addressed the standards that apply when a non-exempt employee alleges that an employer did not provide meal breaks. In short: it is now...
View ArticleCalifornia Implements Significant Changes in the Employment Application...
On October 12, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed several bills regulating a wide range of employer actions, everything from the labeling of cleaning fluids to the employment application...
View ArticleCalifornia Proposes New Legislation Prohibiting Confidentiality Provisions in...
In the face of a continuing wave of highly publicized complaints of sexual misconduct in the workplace, California state senator Connie M. Leyva introduced Senate Bill 820. If passed, this law would...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Instructs Employers How to Calculate Employee...
In Alvarado v. Dart Container Corporation of California, the California Supreme Court determined how employers must calculate an employee’s overtime pay rate when the employee earns a bonus during a...
View ArticleWashington Legislature Enacts Multiple Anti-Employer Statutes
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. · Judge Gideon J. Tucker In the recently concluded session, Washington legislators enacted numerous laws that will...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Embraces New Employee-Friendly Worker Classification...
In Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Lee, the California Supreme Court created a new employee-friendly test for determining whether workers are properly classified as employees or independent...
View ArticleNo Peace for Piece-Rate Pay in Washington Agriculture
In yet another blow to agricultural employers, grab your stopwatches. In Carranza v. Dovex Fruit Co., the Washington Supreme Court has just held that agricultural employers are required to compensate...
View ArticleOregon’s Secure Scheduling Law Goes into Effect July 1: Are You Ready?
The 2017 Oregon legislature passed a “secure scheduling” or “fair work week” law that imposes significant requirements on certain categories of large employers. The law, available here, goes into...
View ArticleIdaho Supreme Court Adopts New Standard for Defining “Cause” in Employment Cases
On June 28, 2018, the Idaho Supreme Court issued an opinion in a case entitled Lunneborg v. My Fun Life that outlines how cause will be defined in employment cases. Simply put, this case could be a...
View ArticleCalifornia Federal Court Suspends Enforcement of Certain Provisions in...
On July 5, 2018, a federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) request to temporarily prevent the state of California from enforcing key...
View ArticleCalifornia Enacts New Law Protecting as Privileged Workplace Sexual...
On July 9, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2770. This bill extends privileged communication status to certain communications by employees and employers regarding alleged...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Determines that the Federal De Minimis Doctrine Does...
In Troester v. Starbucks Corp., the California Supreme Court determined that the federal de minimis doctrine does not apply to California wage claims. While this ruling does not completely eviscerate...
View ArticleCalifornia Labor Commissioner Issues $1.9 Million Citation to Contractor for...
Continuing its aggressive enforcement of California wage and hour laws, the Labor Commission issued wage theft citations of $1.9 million to Fullerton Pacific Interiors, Inc. for failing to pay minimum...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Resolves Conflict Regarding California’s Background...
In Connor v. First Student, Inc., the California Supreme Court resolved a conflict in Court of Appeal decisions relating to the constitutionality of California’s background check laws. Employers...
View ArticleCalifornia Courts Slowly Interpret Dynamex
Almost six months ago, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Dynamex, which dramatically altered the landscape pertaining to the classification of California workers as either employees...
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