Publications

By: Huy M. Tran and Kerri N. Polizzi On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, the California legislature passed a landmark bill known as Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5) that will reshape many companies' ability to classify workers as independent contractor. Most notably, the bill...

By: Tyler D. Kring California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 778 on August 30, 2019, amending Government Code Section 12950.1. The Governor's signature extends the deadline for California employers to comply with sexual harassment training requirements...

By: Tyler D. Kring On nearly a daily basis, our firm analyzes claims related to alleged "discrimination" in the workplace. Routinely, we must clarify the difference between what an individual believes to be discrimination and what California labor law says is illegal...

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...

As our firm discussed in a previous publication titled California Prohibits On-Duty and On-Call Rest Periods, the Supreme Court of California ruled that employers may not require their employees to remain "on-call" during rest periods. The Court noted that, "state law...

By: Kerri N. Polizzi California employers with 50 or more employees have long been required to provide at least two hours of sexual harassment prevention training to supervisors and managers. Specifically, since 2005 any employer with "supervisory authority" is...

By: Kerri N. Polizzi On February 4, 2019, a panel of the California Court of Appeal held in Ward v. Tilly's, Inc., that certain on-call scheduling practices require employees to "report to work" within the meaning of the Industrial Welfare Commission ("IWC") Wage...

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...

California's Fourth Appellate District, Division One (San Diego/Riverside), recently upheld a "production" payment plan that guarantees at least the minimum wage for all hours worked (including non-productive time and rest breaks) but provides that automotive...

By:    Last weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown signed many significant pieces of legislation related to the recent #MeToo movement. The majority of the laws will take effect on January 1, 2019 and will undoubtedly have a large impact...