Last week, we blogged about how a recent California appellate court decision effectively rendered an employee confidentiality agreement as an unenforceable covenant not to compete. In a similar decision, Whitewater…
Read More ›November 24, 2020
Cal/OSHA Approves New COVID-19 Health and Safety Regulations
** UPDATE ** Dec. 18, 2020 — Rules are changing rapidly – see also this post on changes to quarantine limits. ** UPDATE ** Dec. 14, 2020 — Listen to Michelle…
Read More ›November 23, 2020
Confidentiality Agreements Can Be Unenforceable Covenants Not to Compete
In Brown v. TGS Management Company, LLC (2020) Cal. App. LEXIS 1074, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, recently held, in a case appealed from a trial court decision…
Read More ›October 19, 2020
New Law Mandates Diversity on Corporate Boards in California
Governor Newsom has signed into law a bill, patterned after California’s ground-breaking gender diversity bill adopted two years ago, requiring publicly-held corporations that have their principal executive offices here, to…
Read More ›September 25, 2020
Doe v. Google: PAGA Extends to Confidentiality Agreements Between Employers and Employees
Unless you have been living under a rock for, oh, the last 15 years or so, you know how vexing PAGA (the California Private Attorneys General Act of 2004) can…
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