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Last week, a former Jack in the Box employee, Blanca Ramirez, won $15.4 million (consisting of $10 million in punitive damages) in her lawsuit against Jack in the Box. Among other things, Ramirez alleged age and disability discrimination. Ramirez was 53 years old at...
Originally Published on June 19, 2019; Revised on April 28, 2021 Have you been subjected to disability discrimination in the workplace? Do you have an impairment that is considered a "physical disability" under California law? California law defines "physical...
Originally Published on June 14, 2019; Revised on October 5, 2020 If you are a state civil service employee who has been served with a Notice of Adverse Action, you have the right to file an appeal with the State Personnel Board ("SPB") Appeals Division within thirty...
If you are a state civil service employee who has been served with a Notice of Adverse Action, you have the right to file an appeal with the State Personnel Board ("SPB") Appeals Division within thirty (30) calendar days after the effective date of the adverse action....
According to US News & World Report, a “former employee of celebrated American chef Thomas Keller is suing him and his three-star Michelin restaurants for pregnancy discrimination.” Former employee Vanessa Scott-Allen alleges that “she was denied a job transfer...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...