by employeelaw | Oct 30, 2017
The Arbitration Agreement Shackled the Employee Baxter complained to her Company that performance evaluation forms illegally coded for age, race, and gender. She also objected to the Company reneging on an extension of about 15 to 30 days on her FMLA leave. Within 2...
by employeelaw | Oct 26, 2017
Pay Disclosure Is a Brake on Gender Pay Parity California employers may not require pay disclosure during the job application process. The rationale for this prohibition is that pay disclosure by women during salary negotiations may very well anchor the new pay rate...
by employeelaw | Oct 25, 2017
Wage Claims in Building Contract Situations Wage claims are ubiquitous in the private building industry. This story is a fictional account of carpenter Jesus Martinez whose employer failed to pay his wages and has disappeared, leaving only a shell corporation. The...
by employeelaw | Oct 23, 2017
Customer Lists are Not Proprietary Merely by Being Included in a Trade Secret Agreement. The following is a completely hypothetical and fictional account presented to illustrate legal principles. The names of individuals and companies do not identify any real persons...
by employeelaw | Oct 22, 2017
Workplace Bullies at work use tactics like these: 1. Phony Performance Improvement Plans or “PIPS.” Bully managers use these for set ups to harass you. The “plan” is not to improve your performance through training, resources, and availability for guidance, but to...
