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In California, employers with 50 or more full-time, part-time, or temporary employees or independent contractors must provide sexual harassment prevention training regularly to their supervisors. The objectives of this training are: (a) to assist employers in changing...
California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (the "FEHA") prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. Notably, the California legislature amended the FEHA in 2014 so that it now states as follows: "Sexually harassing conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire."...
According to The San Francisco Chronicle, in an article today entitled "UC Berkeley suspends professor after 'pattern of sexual harassment,'" Professor Nezar AlSayyad, a renowned architecture professor, has been suspended without pay "for sexually harassing a graduate...
According to Bloomberg BNA today, the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has determined that Cisco Systems Inc. "secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens for certain jobs and paid the visa holders at a lower...
Originally Published on August 21, 2018; Updated/Revised on April 6, 2021 You may believe that your employer is violating the law. However, you may be reluctant to speak out or to report your employer's illegal conduct, out of fear that your employer will retaliate...
According to The New York Times, new economic research finds that "a woman’s lifelong earnings and how much she works are influenced by the levels of sexism in the state where she was born." For instance, "[a] woman born in the Deep South is likely to face a much...
Generally speaking, under California's Pregnancy Disability Leave Law ("PDLL"), employees who are "disabled by pregnancy" are entitled to up to four months of job-protected leave. Below are seven things you should know about your rights under California's PDLL: No. 1:...
Originally Published on August 19, 2018; Revised/Updated on May 9, 2021 Let’s assume that an employee is on medical leave under the federal Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) and the California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”) because of a serious health condition. The...
In The Mercury News, Maria Noel Fernandez and Ben Field note that when a company classifies a worker as an independent contractor rather than as an employee, "it avoids providing essentials like Social Security contributions, minimum wages, overtime and health care,...
If you are a non-exempt employee, below are eight things that you should know about your right to meal periods under California law: No. 1: If you work more than five hours in a day, your employer must provide you with one unpaid, off-duty meal period that is 30...