Minimum wage increase Effective January 1, 2024, California’s minimum wage will increase to $16 per hour for all employers. Some cities...

We may have made great strides in getting the virus itself under control, but the legal landscape surrounding employee rights and...

Healthcare was busier than ever the past year, and not just because of the pandemic. Ransomware campaigns against health care providers...

If the past year has taught us nothing else, we now know that things can change: rapidly, significantly, and in a global way. One day...

Yesterday, Governor Newsom signed AB 1867, legislation that immediately extends critical paid sick days protections to California’s...

The Office of the Attorney General recently an opinion formally addressing the meaning of the term “effective date” in Business and...

Governor Newsom recently signed into law AB 241 which will require, by January 1, 2022, that continued education for physicians,...

Governor Newsom signed into law AB 51, which becomes effective January 1, 2020. For agreements entered into, modified, or extended on or...

On June 28, 1894, the 53rd Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday. Here’s how Rep....

The California Senate just passed a bill that would ban pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts to doctors. The bill, SB 790, is...

The California Fair Employment and Housing Council’s (“FEHC”) new regulations limiting employers’ use of criminal history in employment...

The Tort Claims Act (Cal. Gov. Code, § 810 et seq.) generally requires the filing of an administrative claim for damages as a...

On June 27th, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hardie v. NCAA. The Plaintiff, Dominic Hardie, filed suit alleging that the NCAA's...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with...

What obligations do employers have if an employee is being harassed by another employee online? Given that the law in this area is...

Plaintiff Victoria Zetwick worked as a correctional office for the County of Yolo. In a lawsuit against the County and Sheriff Edward...

California Labor Code Section 980 governs an employer’s access to employees’ private social media accounts. Section 980 prohibits an...

We can learn a lot from the French. And I’m not talking about the obvious things like how to make mouth-watering cheese or stellar...