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As a close observer of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak from my West African work, the most precious commodity in the current pandemic is knowledge. Please consider thiseight-minute COVID-19 videofor a co...
READ MOREEmployers are taking various steps to help offset the economic repercussions of the Coronavirus pandemic, such as providing employees with the use of paid sick leave, paid vacation time, and telecommu...
READ MORELike many companies, Apple has a practice of checking retail workers’ bags and personal electronic devices after they clock out as a theft prevention measure. In aFebruary 2020 ruling, the California ...
READ MOREThrough the confusion raging around the state-to-state spread ofcoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)comes at least one federal agency seemingly prepared to effectively guide employers and employees ali...
READ MORECalifornia’sFair Employment and Housing Act(FEHA) and its federal counterpart, theCivil Rights Act of 1964, are designed to protect employees from unlawful discrimination.
READ MOREA concept born with the 1800s Industrial Revolution , “at will” employment is proclaimed to survive inevery American state except Montanaas the right of either employer or employee to terminate their ...
READ MOREThe California Labor Commissioner hasfiled her “AB 5” first lawsuit— against Mobile Wash, Inc. of Bellflower, CA — for misclassifying more than 100 mobile car washers as independent contractors under ...
READ MOREIn a blow to the gig economy, a Los Angeles federal court has ruled that Uber, Postmates and two individual plaintiffs are unlikely to succeed on their constitutional challenges toAB5.Olson v. State o...
READ MOREWith two exceptions (New Zealand, 1894; Australia, 1896), no country had a minimum wage law until the 20th Century. Instead, employers paid supposed “just (or fair) wages” on the purported mutual cons...
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