With the California Court of Appeal’s recent decision in AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc., the state may have left even less wiggle room for employers who might still have and want to enforce non-solicitation agreements in their ...
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Updates
Medical Leave: How and Why Chipotle Prevailed in a High-Stakes Pregnancy Discrimination Trial
After an eight-day trial, a Southern California jury has decided that Chipotle Mexican Grill did not unlawfully discriminate when it fired a manager after she suffered a miscarriage and failed to return from a 12-week medical leave. The plaintiff ...
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California’s Duffy Decision: In-Home Caregivers Are Owed Overtime
Employers of in-home caregivers beware. A recent California court of appeal ruled that an in-home caregiver was entitled to overtime pay under the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights after finding she was an employee rather than an independent ...
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Alert: Court Decision Changes On-Call Pay Rules
The Court of Appeal in California just published an opinion that threatens to change how employers structure on-call duties. Contradicting long-settled precedent that on-call time need not be paid unless an employee’s activities are unduly ...
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As Private Attorneys General Act Filings Increase, Businesses Intensify and Expand Defense Efforts
The California Private Attorneys General Act, better known as “PAGA,” authorizes individual employees to sue for Labor Code violations on behalf of all their co-workers. They can do this regardless of the number of co-workers, whether they ...
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Podcast: Employee Travel Time Compensation
A 2018 appellate court decision will help you get employee travel time compensation right.
This is a question we get from employers a lot, “How do we compensate employees for travel time to the job site? The reason they’re asking is partly because ...
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2019 Brings New Penalties for Skilled & Trained Workforce Violations
As many public works contractors are aware, over the last several years, California has adopted skilled and trained workforce requirements which mandate that contractors working on specific types of projects employ a certain percentage of ...
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Wage Hour Update: California Healthcare Workers Can Forgo Second Meal Break
Healthcare workers in California who work a 12-hour shift can forgo their second meal break and leave work a half hour sooner. The decision, handed down by the California Supreme Court last week, ended a lawsuit that was into its eleventh ...
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