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 and in court-ordered or private arbitration.
More than 5,000 California employers are sued each year for civil penalties under PAGA. This year promises to be no exception. Already, the state has received notice of hundreds of intended PAGA actions. Every business in the state with at least one employee is at risk of such a claim. While California’s Legislature has shown no interest in reforming PAGA’s draconian features, employers in 2023 can take advantage of recent judicial and political developments to limit PAGA’s impact.
The California Department of Industrial Relations recently published FAQs with interpretive guidance on the state’s new pay transparency law. As we detailed in our October ...
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Key Provisions
Effective January 1, 2023, California employers with five or more employees will be required to provide up to five days of bereavement leave to employees who ...
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Historically, California courts have upheld the legality of time rounding (where, for example, actual time punches are rounded backwards or forwards to the nearest quarter ...
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