As many have probably heard, Twitter was recently sued for purportedly not giving its employees sufficient advance notice of a mass layoff following Elon Musk’s recent purchase of the company. In early November, several former employees of Twitter brought a...
As we approach the end of the year, it is time to begin looking at some of the new California employment laws which will go into effect in 2023. Below are of some of the changes affecting California employees and employers early next year: Retaliation in Emergency...
The goal of any blog, including an employment law blog, is to write something topical. At present, the most topical issue is Chris Rock being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscar’s. Does this incident present any issue of employment law worth discussing? Yes, it...
California wage and hour laws mandate that companies cannot require employees to work “off-the- clock” without monetary compensation. Working “off-the-clock” means that an employee does work for his or her employer, with the company’s knowledge, but without receiving...
In response to the growing #MeToo movement throughout the United States, in 2018, the California legislature passed legislation designed to limit the non-disclosure provisions in settlement agreements to resolve lawsuits involving allegations of sexual harassment in...
