U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services leadership announced today that they have abandoned their plan to lay off 13,000 workers or roughly two-thirds of its workforce. USCIS, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, is a fee-funded agency. Ninety-seven percent of its revenue comes from the…
This week, the federal Department of Labor (DOL) issued a field assistance bulletin explaining employers’ obligations when it comes to tracking compensable hours worked by non-exempt employees who are teleworking during the pandemic. The guidance provides helpful reminders for employers on this…
There have been some highly publicized stories lately of employers taking different approaches to managing employee dress codes, specifically dealing with employees wearing Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) apparel and other forms of political and social justice expression. It was reported that one…
As previously reported, a San Francisco Superior Court judge recently issued a preliminary injunction against Uber and Lyft, ordering them to reclassify their drivers as employees instead of independent contractors. Uber and Lyft filed an immediate appeal seeking a stay of the trial court’s order.…
On August 19, 2020, in response to technical difficulties producing I-766 Employment Authorization Documents (also known as EAD cards), the Department of Homeland Security announced that employees may produce and employers must accept a paper I-797 Notice of Action approving an Application for Employment…
For over 25 years, CDF has distinguished itself as one of the top employment, labor and immigration firms in California, representing employers in single-plaintiff and class action lawsuits and advising employers on related legal compliance and risk avoidance. We cover the state, with five locations from Sacramento to San Diego.
Robin Largent has a regular presence in California state and federal courts and has been lead defense counsel and appellate counsel for large and small California employers in litigation (and arbitration) ranging from individual discrimination and harassment claims to complex wage and hour representative and class actions. She also leads the firm’s appellate practice, having substantial experience and success handling appeals, writ petitions, and amicus briefs in both state and federal court on issues such as class certification (particularly in the wage and hour arena), manageability and due process concerns associated with class action trials, exempt/non-exempt misclassification issues, meal and rest break compliance, trade secret/unfair competition matters, and the scope of federal court jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act.
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