Let’s Keep the Workplace Working
Cook Brown works with employers to develop optimum and creative strategies for defending against employee claims in jury and bench trials in state and federal courts, before administrative tribunals (such as the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Labor, and National Labor Relations Board; the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and Labor Commissioner; and Fed-OSHA and Cal-OSHA), and in court-ordered or private arbitration.
Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 51, which outlaws mandatory arbitration of employment disputes. Employers who have relied on mandatory arbitration to resolve employment-based disputes must quickly reevaluate their policies and practices. The new law impacts only those agreements signed as of January 1, 2020. Prior arbitration agreements remain enforceable, even if employees were required to sign them as a condition of employment. Read our latest blog post to learn what this means for California employers.
Among the hundreds of new laws recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom are two bills which may impact contractors working on California public works jobs.
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In an attempt to avoid wildfires caused by winds damaging power equipment, California utilities took the unprecedented step to proactively shut off power to about 800,000 ...
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The arbitrator in a hotly contested withdrawal liability dispute just ruled in favor of Cook Brown’s client–soundly rejecting the Pension Fund’s claim that the client was ...
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