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Routine “agreements” to arbitrate have been eroding our rights and access to court. Please support the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (“FAIR”) Act and raise awareness about how we’re being herded out of court and forced to arbitrate.

This video covers USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act), state sovereign immunity, and litigation protecting the rights of military service members.

Was the first Labor Day in May or September? The answer may surprise you. In this short video, we’ll start with that and end with proposed laws to shorten and condense workweeks.

Misclassifying workers can be an expensive mistake, so in this video, we’ll explore the California law used to determine if a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. Those standards are a mix of old and new law, so we’ll get into some background, and then tie it all together. The current law includes the Borello balancing test, ABC test, and various legislative enactments.

Back in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was proposed for inclusion in the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment was to ensure that “[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied… on account of sex.” Fast forward 100 years, and it’s still being considered.

In this video, we discuss Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety – a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) clarifying the employment rights of military service members under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ("USERRA").

In this video, we discuss back-to-school employment laws, including time off to attend school activities, after-school jobs, and volunteering.

In this video, we’ll explore disability accommodations, what’s reasonable and what’s not, and the interactive process for determining the accommodations to provide. Those requirements arise under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

In this video, we’ll explore California law on child labor and unpaid internships.

In honor of our service members, we’ll look at the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ("USERRA") and state employment.

Climate change is the central challenge of our time. In this video, we’ll briefly review climate law, policy, and solutions.

In this video, we'll explore the Equal Pay Act.

In this video, we examine the repeat-player effect to explain when forced arbitration is fair... and when it's not.

Increased minimum wage means exempt employees need to be paid more. In this video, we'll explore why.

In this video, we'll discuss expansions to #MeToo (Senate Bill 331 - Silenced No More Act), California Family Rights Act (Assembly Bill 1033), and increased minimum wage.

In light of the new presidential order for COVID vaccination or weekly testing, we'll explore who pays for it.

College students may be looking to gain professional experience. Enter the unpaid internship. While it can be done, calling an employee an “unpaid intern” spells trouble, and coordinating with the school is a good place to start.

Many hospitality and building-service employees laid off during COVID must now be rehired, per Labor Code section 2810.8.

COVID paid sick leave has been expanded to provide two weeks of paid sick leave to businesses with 26 or more employees. To determine eligibility, the Labor Commissioner’s Office recently updated its website with an interactive questionnaire that we'll explore in this video!

Pregnant women and new parents in California

Feeling stumped about COVID and the workplace? Good news! California's new, user-friendly website is chockfull of helpful guidance.

As COVID vaccines roll out, some employers may start requiring them, creating an interesting tension in the law.