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What "At-Will" Employment Really Means to California Employers

At-will employment is one the most misunderstood terms in employment law. From the employer's perspective, it is important to understand that even though at will employment means that an employee can...

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Your Employees Might Be Entitled to Additional Medical Leave After Their FMLA...

One of the more common mistakes that employers make with regard to their employees' medical leave is assuming that just because their employee has exhausted their FMLA (or California CFRA leave), they...

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Reasonable Accommodations Guide for Employers

If you are an employer who employs five or more employees (full time or part time), you are subject to ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and FEHA (Fair Employment and Housing Act). This means,...

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The Basics of Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Investigations

Under California law, employers have an obligation to promptly investigate and remedy harassment or discrimination at workplace. This means that if an employee approaches you, a manager, and complains...

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An important tip for your Videotaped deposition

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Is it worth fighting your employee's unemployment benefits claim?

One common mistake that employers make that lead to wrongful termination lawsuits that could have been easily avoided is fighting an employee's unemployment claim. While in some cases contesting...

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Top three mistakes employers make when conducting harassment or...

Conducting proper investigation of harassment or discrimination allegations by one of your employees can be a very important factor in defending a potential discrimination, retaliation or wrongful...

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Do your attorneys work in your best interest

Having represented both employees and employers in a number of employment related and wrongful termination claims, I noticed that when I am on the employee's side, there can be two kind of attorneys on...

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California wage laws: How Employers misunderstand administrative managerial...

Today, I took a deposition of a corporate manager in a case that involves misclassification of an employee who was salaried before being terminated, when he should have been hourly and should have been...

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How your arrogance can hurt your defense in employment & wrongful termination...

Just like an employee's personality is critical to their employment / wrongful terination case, especially when it goes in front of a jury/judge, the personality of the employer's key corporate...

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Unemployment Appeal Hearings - be prepared

Last week, I attended an unemployment appeals hearing, representing an employee. The employer, a major corporation, appeared by phone though one of its out of state human resources managers. That...

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Make Sure the employment terms of your workers are set in writing

So many issues regarding non-payment or underpayment of wages that are brought both in court and in front of a labor commissioner arise due to the fact that the employer and its employees simply did...

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Why paying your employees in cash is a bad idea

Here is not an uncommon scenario. A waiter comes up to the owner of the restaurant and ask that he is paid half in case and half by check, so that the employee can either pay less in taxes or... so...

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