In yet another sign that the tide is turning in employers’ favor on the wage/hour class action front, a California appellate court has upheld the denial of certification in a…

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Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a report that provides guidance to public companies that want to use social media to disclose important information about their business activities….

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a plaintiff could not maintain a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when her former employer had offered her full monetary…

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It’s as much a Spring rite of passage as Opening Day in baseball or Tax Day: the California Chamber of Commerce’s annual list of “job killer” bills.  Ever since Arnold…

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Over the last two years, California employers have gotten progressively better news from the state and federal courts on the wage and hour class action front.  The trend began in…

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Right now, the answer to that question just depends on your appetite for risk.  If you are risk adverse and do not want to have to update your arbitration agreement…

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On March 28, 2013, the California Court of Appeals upheld a Los Angeles Court’s ruling in Hatai v. Dept. of Transportation, precluding the Plaintiff, Hatai, from presenting “me too” evidence…

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In mid-April 2009, the Rio Hondo Community College District advised the California School Employees Association (CSEA or Union) of its intent to install surveillance cameras in its new Learning Resource…

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File this one under “be careful what you draft,” especially if you are a law firm. Bingham McCutcheon LLP provided a letter agreement to one of its associates in California,…

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Although arbitration agreements are supposed to ease disputes, for the last decade they have had a tendency to exacerbate them.  Proponents of arbitration see it as an efficient, cost-effective way…

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