Fueled by the need of legislators to politicize the “me-too” movement, there has been a lot of media attention in recent months on proposed legislation in many states to limit arbitration and/or confidentiality of sexual harassment-related claims. California, like several other states, has proposed its own...
Yesterday, the Department of Labor (DOL) under the Trump administration issued its first wage-hour opinion letters. Two of these opinion letters may be of general interest to employers and concern issues of (1) when an employee’s travel time must be compensated as hours worked under the...
Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved amendments to the City’s Fair Chance Ordinance, an ordinance that originally was enacted in 2014 to place limits on employers’ consideration of criminal history in making employment decisions. The amendments to the ordinance primarily are aimed at...
You may recall that last year, we reported on a Ninth Circuit case, Rizo v. Yovino, wherein the Court of Appeal held that an applicant’s prior salary history is a “factor other than sex” that an employer may rely on, either alone or in combination with...
Yesterday, the Department of Justice, probably for the first time since 2010, commenced and settled anti-trust proceedings against employers who had reached agreements not to poach each others’ employees. In 2010, the Department of Justice commenced and settled anti-trust actions against Adobe, Apple, Google, Pixar, Intel,...
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