Corporate Deadbeats: How Companies Get Rich Off of Taxes
Newsweek has a great article this week on how the recent corporate inverstion trend is harmful to the ordinary John Q. Taxpayer: Corporate Deadbeats: How Companies Get Rich Off Of [...]
It’s Here – State Mandated Paid Sick Leave (AB 1522)
Touted as the “Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, the State of California mandates paid sick leave starting on July 1, 2015. By law, an eligible employee accrues paid sick [...]
Even Those Who “Like” On Facebook Are A Protected Class
We advise clients that they are free to terminate the employment relationship with a worker unless the action either breaches a contract or violates public policy. A public policy violation [...]
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 unpaid wages. In essence, [...]
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 EEOC puts it, a "belief [...]
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 advertising on Time Warner’s cable [...]
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