In recent years, TikTok has become a widely used platform for communication and content sharing, boasting nearly 2 billion users globally and 170 million active users in the U.S. alone
Continue Reading Preparing for a TikTok Ban: What Employers Should Do to Ensure Access to Crucial Information Before It Disappears
Our team has updated the firm’s handy Doing Business in California Guide for 2025. In this Guide we explain the key issues that make California such a compliance challenge for
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This post is part of Experience Matters, a series drawing on my 30+ years of defending employers in California employment litigation. The series highlights actions you can take to reduce
Continue Reading Take These Smart Steps to Reduce Risk, Build Defensible Terminations, and Stress Less!
The New Rule: Employees are given whistleblower protection for lodging complaints of violations already known to the employer.
While California courts have already granted employees with broad whistleblower protection
Continue Reading ALERT: CHANGE IN LAW – RETALIATION PROTECTION NOW GIVEN TO EMPLOYEES COMPLAINING OF KNOWN VIOLATIONS
Any one of three bills still advancing through the California Legislature’s 2022 session will have broad consequences for California employers if enacted. The Legislature has until August 31 to pass
Continue Reading Consequential Bills to Employers Advance Through California Legislature
Please join us for a complimentary webinar on Thursday September 8, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) in which California defense attorneys will share
Continue Reading Webinar – Avoid the Top Five HR MistakesPlease join us for a complimentary webinar on Thursday, June 16, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. PST (1:00 p.m. EST) for insight on emerging threats in California employment litigation. Fox employment
Continue Reading Webinar – “New Threats to California Employers”
Employees who suffer physical or mental injury due to a crime will be entitled to job-protected leave and other protections from their employers under legislation signed this week by Governor
Continue Reading Employees who are Crime Victims Gain New Protections Under Bill Approved by Governor Newsom
The phrase “no good deed goes unpunished” applies in many contexts, including California employment law. Here are six ways that employers get into trouble by trying to do favors for
Continue Reading Six “Good Deeds” That CA Employment Law Punishes Harshly
Maybe Governor Jerry Brown read my January blog post on references because, last week, he signed AB 2770 into law. Effective January 1, 2019, employers are protected by an expanded
Continue Reading Increased Protections for Employers Answering Reference Requests