Updates on workplace violence prevention, AI rules, right to disconnect
Here’s a mid-year update of topics addressed in earlier columns. Workplace violence prevention plan July 1 deadline My Jan. 1 column…
EEOC issues new workplace harassment guidance
The focus of this, my 200th column, is workplace harassment. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal employment…
May 20, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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The Californization of federal labor laws
If they survive court challenges, new federal rules addressing independent contractor status, farmworker rights, and non-compete agreements will…
May 6, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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Why a proposed California law that would give you the right to ignore your boss’ after-hours communications hours is flawed
Everyone appreciates a break from work. Assemblymember Matt Haney recently introduced AB 2751, which would give all employees, except those covered…
April 22, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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Must employees be paid for time spent undergoing exit security process?
Must employees be paid for time spent on employer premises in their personal vehicles while waiting to scan an identification badge, with guards…
April 8, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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One step closer to student-athlete labor unions?
March Madness is a fitting time to focus on recent legal activity in the longstanding dispute over whether college athletes should be treated as…
March 25, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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3 ways the pandemic left its mark on law in the workplace
On March 19, 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all Californians except those working in “federal critical infrastructure sectors” to stay…
March 11, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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Employee claiming sexual misconduct can opt out of predispute artbitration agreement
In 2022, Congress enacted the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, which went into effect March 3, 2022. The act…
February 26, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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Is it unlawful discrimination to not promote an employee who works remotely?
California law requires employers with five or more employees to provide interactive sexual harassment training to their employees annually. I…
February 13, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Publications
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US Labor Department’s new independent contractor test
On Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published final regulatory guidance addressing the classification of workers as independent…