Success. What does it mean if your family and friendships erode with the increasing long hours you spend trying to fit into the “work harder, work longer” culture of your workplace? There is probably no greater loss than that precious intangible: time with children...
Discrimination and Implicit Bias – The Subconscious Operations of the Human Mind Seldom is bias conscious. We all like to see ourselves as “good” and so we suppress awareness of the “bad” qualities we of course have. Start with a basic...
Recent California Employment Law — Space for PPs. Class actions are heating up in New York for “parking production assistants” or “PPAs.” Limited parking space means that these assistants are hired to hold spaces open at or near filming locations in New York...
Arbitration Cards Pulled From a Stacked Deck The California Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case likely to be the ruin of a long standing exception to compelled arbitration: that discrimination and harassment complaints may not be excluded the right of...
One Overtime Rate Does Not Fit All: Irregular and Short is Not in Style. You may be shorted on overtime pay if your employer fails to correctly calculate the “regular rate of pay.” Your stated hourly rate as a non-exempt employee is not the end of the calculation of...
Equal Pay Does Not Require 1:1 Symmetry of Work Performed. On January 1, 2016 California put considerably more bite into a longstanding equal pay law that was mostly toothless in the proof. Now, the proof has been made easier, and more cases will be filed. The...
