Claims for Minimum Wage Violations Extended
Labor Code section 1194.2 allows an employee to seek liquidated damages if (s)he was not paid minimum wage. The amount of liquidated damages is equal to [...]
The EEOC Targets Onionheads
The EEOC has sued the United Health Programs of America for alleged religious discrimination. The owners of the company developed a strategy, or as the [...]
Commissioned Employees May Be Entitled To Overtime Under Peabody v. Time Warner
Ms. Peabody was a short-time employee who caused Time Warner a long-term headache! (Peabody v. Time Warner Cable, Inc. 2014 Cal. LEXIS 4755.) She sold [...]
Gubernatorial Candidate Poses As Homeless Man…in Fresno!
Neel Kashkari, California's Republican candidate for governor spent a week living as a homeless person in Fresno, in search of a job to demonstrate the difficulty many [...]
Shelly Wins Right to Sell the Clippers . . . and how an obscure provision in the Probate Code made it unappealable
Just the other day, a Probate Court judge approved Shelly Sterling's request to confirm that Donald Sterling was properly removed as Trustee of the family [...]
Misclassifying Independent Contractors
My law partner, Bob Fishman, reminds us frequently, "the devil is in the details." This is what we call a "Bob-ism." We have collected many [...]