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California’s New “Workplace Violence Prevention Program” Law and Its Implications
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...
Mandatory Paid Sick Leave for Employees Set to Increase on January 1, 2024
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...
Employees Maintain PAGA Standing Even After Individual Claims are Submitted to Arbitration
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 Have a Duty to Protect Their Employees From Cybertheft
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...
Supreme Court Ruling Is All Bite, No Bark for Prospective Infringers
In a highly publicized case, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of Jack Daniels and against a company that marketed and sold a spoof dog chew toy. The toy was shaped like a Jack Daniels’ whiskey bottle. It used similar coloring and stylized...