by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Apr 22, 2016
Paid Family Leave Is the Only Leave Option for Many. Here’s the hard reality, and its not news: families are strained on many levels. One of these is financial. Two incomes and high debt with increased job losses or job insecurity translates to tension, exhaustion,...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Apr 13, 2016
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...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Mar 21, 2016
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...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 16, 2016
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...
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...
