As California employers know, the California legislature passed a new law in 2019 barring employers from requiring employees to enter into arbitration agreements that cover wage and hour claims and FEHA claims (discrimination, harassment, retaliation). That law was supposed to take effect January 1, 2020…
Today, the California Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated decision in ZB N.A. v. Superior Court (Lawson), resolving a split among California Courts of Appeal on the issue of application of an arbitration agreement to a PAGA claim seeking both civil penalties AND unpaid wages (pursuant to Labor Code…
Despite having its anti-arbitration rulings reversed several times (and counting) by the United States Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court issued another questionable anti-arbitration decision today in Oto, LLC v. Kho, furthering the Golden State’s ongoing agenda to try to disallow these…
Following its “epic” loss last year on the issue of whether class action waiver provisions in employment arbitration agreements violate Section 7 of the NLRA, the NLRB has issued a new decision taking a much more employer-friendly view of mandatory arbitration agreements. In Cordua Restaurants,…
The United States Supreme Court recently issued its opinion in Lamps Plus v Varela, holding that a class action may not be ordered to arbitration unless the parties’ arbitration agreement expressly states that class claims may be arbitrated. In so holding, the Court overruled the Ninth…
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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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