According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, “nearly a quarter of truck drivers in California are working as independent contractors,” and “[r]esearch suggests that misclassification [of independent contractors] is particularly egregious in port trucking.” Read the full...
Exclusively Employment Law
Month: March 2019
In the News: California Laws Protecting Transgender Employees
A recent article in The National Law Review gives a helpful overview of the new California legal developments that provide greater protections for transgender employees. Read the full article, entitled "Transgender Individuals in the Workplace: An Overview of...
Forbes Article on Gender Discrimination at Work
According to Forbes, "[m]ore than a third of employees have seen a person in a position of power take advantage of subordinates of the opposite sex," and "[n]early a quarter of women believe their careers have suffered because they turned down romantic attention from...
In the News: Age Discrimination in Nursing
According to an editorial in Modern Healthcare, “[contributing] to age prejudice [in the nursing profession] is the advent of new technologies like electronic health records, patient-monitoring systems and even devices driven by artificial intelligence.” And “[a]s the...
Ward v. Tilly’s Inc. – Reporting Time Pay and On-Call Shifts
Originally Published on March 5, 2019; Revised on July 25, 2021 Under California law, employers must pay “reporting time pay” to nonexempt employees in certain circumstances. What is “reporting time pay?” Let’s say that you are a nonexempt employee and you report to...