Discrimination in the workplace is something that employers always try to prevent. To that end, employers should be consistently training and monitoring supervisors and employees alike to ensure the workplace is free from discrimination, as employers in California are subject to many federal and state regulations around discrimination, specifically California’s “Fair Employment and Housing Act,” […]
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What is the Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”)? Passed into law in 2004, PAGA is a mechanism through which aggrieved employees may sue their current or former employer—on behalf of themselves, other employees, and the State of California—to recover civil penalties for various California Labor Code violations. As the name implies, PAGA enables an aggrieved […]
Employers in California increasingly find themselves in an untenable position with respect to potential privacy concerns. On the one hand, the business disadvantages and legal risks of hiring and retaining employees who are incompetent or who otherwise create liability concerns are serious and growing. On the other hand, state and federal laws explicitly forbid the […]
If you were a farm worker who worked in the fields of California, how might you decide to get to work? According to the Migrant Seasonal Workers Protection Act (MSPA), as part of the compensation package offered to farm workers in the state of California, there should be free transportation back and forth to the […]