June 23, 2016
Take a Seat (if Reasonable): The California Supreme Court “Clarifies” Employee Seating Requirements
In April, in Kilby v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., the California Supreme Court weighed in, at the request of the Ninth Circuit, on elements of two California Wage Orders that have,…
Read More ›We recently blogged about the U.S. Department of Labor’s dramatic increase in the salary threshold for exempt employees. The federal changes put California in the unusual position of having (at…
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Misappropriation of Trade Secrets: Make a Federal Case Out of It (Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act)
Last month, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) into law, which permits plaintiffs to bring civil claims for misappropriation of trade secrets in federal court. While…
Read More ›Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a…
Read More ›Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a…
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