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This month’s key California employment law cases both involve jury trials of discrimination claims, and the extent to which the plaintiffs were able to recover attorney’s fees and damages. Bustos v. Glob. P.E.T., Inc., 19...

The National Labor Relations Board has overturned E.I. du Pont de Nemours, 364 NLRB No. 113 (2016), a 2016 decision that limited changes employers could implement in union workplaces.  The Board’s reversal means that...

This month’s key California employment law cases involve recovery of attorney’s fees by a prevailing defendant and the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”). Lopez v. Routt, 17 Cal. App. 5th...

In a case of first impression in the Ninth Circuit, Benjamin v. B&H Educ., Inc., 877 F.3d 1139 (9th Cir. 2017), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals adopted the “primary beneficiary test” to determine whether vocational...

In the final days of 2017, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nixed yet another Obama-Era decision, overruling a highly controversial decision in Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, 357 NLRB 934...

Employers should breathe a sigh of relief.  On December 14, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board overturned the dramatic expansion of the joint employer test it established just two years ago in the controversial...

In a case of first impression in Nevada, Neville v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 133 Nev. Adv. Op. 95 (Dec. 7, 2017), the Nevada Supreme Court held that employees have a private right of action to recoup unpaid wages under...

This month’s key California employment law cases involve disability discrimination claims and procedural issues related to workers’ compensation proceedings. Disability Discrimination – Neufeld v. WinCo Holdings,...

A California Court of Appeal has confirmed that additional insured endorsements (“AIE”) granting coverage for liability arising out of a named insured’s “ongoing operations,” and in effect during those “ongoing...

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Under current law, employers with 50 or more employees must provide at least two hours of prescribed...

Expanding California’s efforts to not cooperate with federal immigration authorities, Assembly Bill 450 imposes new requirements on employers when responding to government immigration worksite enforcement actions. The new...

Assembly Bill 1008 broadens the current “ban the box” law beyond public employers to apply to private employers. The new law makes it an unlawful employment practice for public and private employers with five or more...