Labor Co-Chair Tony Oncidi joins Bloomberg Law podcast host June Grasso to discuss the five employment law cases currently pending before the US Supreme Court. Those cases involve issues ranging from a heterosexual employee’s claim that she was discriminated against because of her sexual orientation and a terminated employee’s RICO claim against a cannabis company that mislabeled its “elixir” and caused the employee to fail a
Unbowed and unbroken, California continues to work toward creating that Workers’ Paradise in the Sun, and this legislative session did not disappoint! Here are the latest new laws that will take effect by the first of the year:
| Law | Summary & Impact on Employers |
| AB 1815 Weber (D-San Diego) | Expansion of the CROWN Act. The Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) already defines the |
It’s not like we didn’t tell you so, cuz we did! Just last year, we predicted that the latest assault on employer arbitration rights had the potential to destroy arbitration everywhere in the country. Is Arbitration Becoming “Just Somebody That We Used to Know”? Well, it’s happening, and the most recent salvo (not surprisingly) comes from the Golden State.
On Monday, a California appellate court
We invite you to review our newly-posted September 2024 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include:
As we previously reported, a Los Angeles jury awarded one of the largest verdicts in history in a sexual assault case in June 2024, doling out a massive $900 million verdict in favor of a plaintiff in a suit against billionaire Alkiviades David. This week, however, a Los Angeles County Court found the damages award “shocked the conscience” and ordered the case to go
On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 3:24-cv-00986-E (N.D. Tex.), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs and ordered the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) non-compete rule (the “Rule”) to be set aside with respect to all employers nationally and that it shall not be enforced or take effect on
The U.S. Supreme Court has had to intervene on numerous occasions to save arbitration in the state of California – arbitration is once again under attack in the Golden State.
Authored by partner, Tony Oncidi and senior counsel, Phil Lebel we invite you to read the full article here, originally published in the Daily Journal.
The “Summer of PAGA” continued last week when the California Supreme Court ruled in Turrieta v. Lyft, Inc., Case No. S271721, that a plaintiff in a Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) action does not have standing to intervene or object to a settlement in a parallel action involving overlapping PAGA claims.
The structure of PAGA tends to invite the scenario facing the parties and
Chevron announced on Friday its plans to relocate its headquarters from Northern California to Houston, Texas. Chevron first began doing business in California nearly 150 years ago in 1879 with the incorporation of the Pacific Coast Oil Company, headquartered in San Francisco.
In a public statement, Chevron said the move is due to a desire to “to co-locate with other senior leaders and enable
On July 25, 2024, the California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 22, the law allowing gig economy workers to be classified as independent contractors. The decision ends a nearly four-year legal battle over the law’s constitutionality and constitutes a major victory for gig economy giants like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash.
Since Prop 22 was passed by California voters in 2020, companies have been