California has long been at the forefront of enacting progressive legislation, especially when it comes to labor and workplace safety. One of the latest additions to this repertoire is Senate Bill 553 (SB553), aimed at preventing workplace violence. While the intentions behind this law are laudable, there are a number of potential drawbacks and costs...

Effective as of January 1, 2024, California employers will be required to provide their workers with additional paid sick leave on a statewide basis.  Currently, state law requires that each employee be provided with a means of accruing at least 24 hours or 3 days of paid sick leave each year.  This can be accomplished by frontloading the mandatory minimum...

In the latest development in what seems like a never-ending battle between employers’ efforts to limit their employees’ potential legal claims to individual claims only and employees’ efforts to ensure that they can bring representative or class claims against their employers, the California Supreme Court has determined that employees...

Everything these days is online, it seems.  So it is not too surprising that a court recently ruled that an employer has a duty to protect its employees from cybertheft.  That is precisely what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in Ramirez v. The Paradies Shops, LLC. In that case, a Carlos Ramirez, on behalf of himself and a class of...