by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 6, 2016
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...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 4, 2016
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...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jan 20, 2016
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...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Dec 19, 2015
California Employment Lawyer Frank Pray Saddles Up to the Bar. There were two big holiday mixer events this week: a joint “Inns of Court” party at Andrei’s restaurant in Irvine, and the Orange County Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Dec 12, 2015
A group of attorneys I meet with each week for lunch and professional discussion in our diverse areas of law appointed me as “President” to handle the great challenge of reserving our monthly luncheon venue, writing up the notifications, and paying the...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Dec 5, 2015
There Is No Current State Bar Certification of California Employment Law Attorneys. The California Employment Law Attorney is a creature unto himself or herself, but there is no California State Bar Certification CA State Bar Certification of specialty in Employment...
