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Under the California Family Rights Act (the “CFRA”), eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of leave in a 12-month period for the birth of a child, the adoption of a child, or the placement of a child in foster care. Eligible employees may also take leave to care...
Originally Published on October 6, 2020; Revised in September 2022 Under California law, employers must provide a reasonable accommodation to employees with a physical or mental disability unless the reasonable accommodation would cause an undue hardship on the...
If you believe that your current or former employer may have engaged in disability discrimination against you, below are seven things you should know about disability discrimination under California law: No. 1: To prevail on a disability discrimination claim, an...
If you believe that your current or former employer may have engaged in disability discrimination against you, below are seven things you should know about disability discrimination under California law: No. 1: Under California law, a “physical disability”...
Generally speaking, California Labor Code Section 970 (“Section 970”) makes it unlawful for anyone to influence or persuade someone to relocate for a job by making knowingly false representations regarding the nature or duration of the work. Click here for an overview...
Originally Published on August 20, 2020; Revised on August 7, 2021 In Swanson v. Morongo Unified School District, 232 Cal.App.4th 954 (2014), Lauralyn Swanson (“Swanson”), a teacher, sued the Morongo Unified School District (the “District”) alleging that the District:...
As you may know, under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (the "FEHA"), employers must provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee who, due to his/her mental or physical disability or medical condition, is unable to perform the essential functions of...
California's Fair Employment and Housing Act requires employers with five or more employees to provide a reasonable accommodation to employees who have a physical or mental disability unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer. A "reasonable...
Many employers have placed their employees on furlough in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A furlough is essentially an employer-initiated unpaid leave of absence with the expectation that the employee will return to work in the future. Here are 6 things that you...
Effective April 1, 2020, the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the "FFCRA") requires employers wither fewer than 500 employees to provide paid sick leave benefits to employees who are unable to work because of COVID-19. However, many food sector workers...