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Bali Kumar is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Bali assists with representation of senior executives, compensation committees, companies and other entities on a range of executive compensation matters.

Prior to law school, Bali attended the London School of Economics where he earned a Masters of Science in International Employment Relations & Human Resources Management. Bali worked as an Executive Compensation Consultant for several years at Deloitte LLP where he advised on benchmarking total compensation packages, investor relations, compensation disclosure, and other corporate governance issues with regards to compensation strategy.

On October 23, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California largely denied a motion to dismiss a whistleblower retaliation claim brought by a company’s former general counsel, ruling that: (i) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”) and Dodd-Frank anti-retaliation provisions provide for individual liability against board members; and (ii) the Dodd-Frank anti-retaliation provision protects internal whistleblowers (i.e., a whistleblower who did not complain…

The latest legislative session has just ended, and, true to form, the California Legislature has added more than a dozen new laws affecting employers doing business in the nation’s largest state.  These statutes are in addition to the other six new laws that we reported on in September:

  • Signed legislation:
    • Sick Leave: Accrual And Limitations Language Clarified (AB 304)
    • Employers Prohibited From Using E-Verify

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