By: On April 24, 2020, the President signed a bill that gave the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") an additional $310 billion in funding over the previous $349 billion authorized by Congress last month. As you probably know by now, there...
Orange County Order Issued to Slow Spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Orange County officials have taken action, effective immediately, banning all public and private gatherings beyond those of a single household in response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Issued by County health officer Dr. Nicole Quick, the Order...
Kyle Kring and Kenneth Chung Named 2020 Super Lawyers
We are pleased to announce our managing partners Kyle Kring and Kenneth Chung have been selected to the 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers list. Mr. Kring was nominated for his excellence in Construction Litigation. For over 30 years, Mr. Kring has represented...
Tyler Kring Sworn in to State Bar
Congratulations to Tyler Kring who was sworn in as a member of the California state bar yesterday. Hon. Gregory Lewis of the Orange County Superior Court administered the oath while the courtroom was filled with many of Tyler's Kring & Chung colleagues including...
The Return of ‘No-Match’ Letters: How Employers Should Respond
By: The Social Security Administration ("SSA") has once again begun issuing employers "Request for Employer Information" letters, better known as "No-Match" letters (view sample letter here). The SSA sends no-match letters to those...
Court of Appeal Upholds Dismissal of Nisei Farmers League Action
By: Nisei Farmers League v. California Labor and Workforce Development Agency is a piece-rate compensation case involving AB 1513 which we have been following and reporting on since it was originally filed.Last Friday, the Court of Appeal...
U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Enforcement of Class Action Arbitration Waivers in Employment Agreements
By: and Kerri N. Polizzi In a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (2018) 584 U.S. ____, the United States Supreme Court held that employer's can enforce arbitration agreements requiring individual arbitration of...
California Supreme Court adopts ABC Test and makes it more difficult to classify workers as Independent Contractors
By: On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, made it much more difficult for businesses to properly and legally classify workers as independent contractors as opposed to employees....
New 2018 U.S. Labor Department Guidelines for Unpaid Interns
By: The U.S. Labor Department's new guidelines for unpaid interns seek to make it easier for employers to use unpaid interns. The guidelines consist of a new "primary beneficiary test" using seven factors to determine whether the intern...
McMillin Albany LLC v. Superior Court: California Supreme Court Holds SB 800 is the Exclusive Remedy for Construction Defect Claims in New Residential Construction
By: On January 18, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued an extremely important ruling for the residential construction industry in McMillin Albany LLC v. Superior Court, No. S229762 (Cal. Jan. 18, 2018). The state high court held that...
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