An Uprising of Gender Bias Suits. Currently, the gender bias drama is being played out in Silicon Valley against Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Google. These companies hire mostly white male programmers, and advance male managers who support them. ...
PAGA Background. You didn’t attend law school. You never ran for political office. But your attorney informs you of the opportunity to act as a private attorney general to obtain redress for your employer’s Labor Code PAGA violations. How can this be, and...
Gender Bias in Law Firms: So Many Ideas But So Little Progress A culture changing idea hackathon has been sponsored this June 23-24, 2016 to occur at Stanford’s “Diversity Lab.” The event is called the “Women in Law Hackathon.” The idea is to gather mega law firm...
Disclaimer: This is an entirely fictional account, created to relieve the writer of the usual dry restraints of technical writing and to relieve you the reader the misery of reading it. Employment litigation after all is about about the people and their stories....
New Transgender Discrimination Laws Extend Protections in California. 2015 and 2016 are milestone years for the transgender community in California as Governor Brown signed into law anti-discrimination laws specifically expanding gender discrimination protections to...
Unpaid Employment Expenses Are Only the Beginning Employees have a powerful tool in California Labor Code Section 2802 to recover unpaid expenses incurred in the course of employment. The three key phrases found in Section 2802 are: Indemnity Attorney’s fees...
