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 customers across Northern California this week. Such power outages have placed ...
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Cook Brown Victory in Withdrawal Liability Dispute
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 liable as a successor to a contractor which ceased much of its construction ...
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Cook Brown Attorneys Named to 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers
Cook Brown is pleased to announce five of our partners have been selected to the 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers list, an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. Dennis B. Cook, Ronald W. Brown, Brian D. Bertossa, ...
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Wage Hour Update: California Healthcare Workers Can Forgo Second Meal Break
Healthcare workers in California who work a 12-hour shift can forgo their second meal break and leave work a half hour sooner. The decision, handed down by the California Supreme Court last week, ended a lawsuit that was into its eleventh ...
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Walmart Agrees to Settle for $65 Million in a PAGA Class Action
Walmart, Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million to end a class action suit with cashiers who claimed that the company violated a California wage order requiring businesses to give certain workers seating and breaks for jobs that require standing. While ...
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Test Your Knowledge – Meal and Rest Breaks
Does No Good Deed Go Unpunished?
The restaurant chain Taco Bell offered discounted meals to employees during their required 30-minute meal breaks with one requirement - that the meal be eaten on site to ensure that it was utilized by the employee ...
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Test Your Knowledge – Background Credit Checks
In May of 2016, Petco was threatened with a class action lawsuit by two California job applicants who claimed that in violation of federal law, they weren’t properly notified the company would conduct credit checks as part of the hiring process. ...
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Test Your Knowledge – A Friendly Hug?
A California state senator was reprimanded recently by the senate rules committee after an internal investigation into complaints that he hugged other senators and staff. The senate Rules Committee stopped short of a sexual harassment accusation but ...
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