California’s New COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Proposal Amid the national surge in COVID-19 cases, on January 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom along with Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, announced a “framework” to ensure California employees have continued access to supplemental COVID-19 paid...
Appealing A Court Decision All is not lost. If you’ve gotten an adverse ruling in a lawsuit, you may be able to turn it around on appeal. But an appeal is not a re-do of the trial court argument. The burdens, inferences and presumptions in the appellate court are different. ...
GOOGLE GOT SLAPPED – EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS ARE TOO BROAD AND EQUATE TO AN ILLEGAL NON-COMPETE High tech and entertainment companies in California are known for requiring that employees sign broad non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality agreements (“NDAs”). A California judge ruled last week that the Google’s NDAs are too broad...
NOPE – US SUPREME COURT SAYS LARGE EMPLOYERS DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW ADMINISTRATION’S VACCINE RULE Today, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. But, the Court allowed...
SAY IT AIN’T SO: EMPLOYERS ADVISED TO FIRE UNVACCINATED? State courts across the country have upheld employers' mandatory vaccination policies. Those decisions are winding their way toward the Supreme Court, which will likely have to weigh in on the enforceability of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (“OSHA”) emergency temporary rules...
EVICTION AND RENT INCREASE MORATORIUM UPDATE Los Angeles CITY extends Local Emergency to January 8, 2023 Los Angeles City eviction moratorium is extended through January 8, 2023, and then it will be considered for further extension on a month-to-month basis. The Los Angeles Housing Department (“LAHD”) website[1], under the tenant...
NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS FOR 2022 It is a new year, with new employment laws. Here’s a synopsis: No More Confidentiality Provisions In Settlement Agreements California law previously prohibited the use of confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements involving claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sex discrimination. Now, the legislature broadened...
Employers Must Pay Employees for Deminimus Startup Time Booting up work computers takes time. The call center representative employees (CCRs) at Nelnet Diversified Solutions LLC (“Nelnet”) had to clock in after their computers were up and running and software was launched, but they were not being paid for that time....
OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccine-Testing Mandate Back in Effect On December 17, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the nationwide stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that had been imposed by the Fifth Circuit, requiring the ETS’s employer vaccination and testing requirements for COVID-19...
California Imposes New Indoor Mask Mandate Citing a sharp increase in COVID-19 infection rates, California is reimposing a statewide mask mandate on indoor settings for one month, regardless of vaccination status. California State Health & Human Services (CDPH) announced that beginning Wednesday, December 15, 2021, running through January 15, 2022,...