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California Adopts the ABC Test for Independent Contractors: A Radical Change for Employers

In April 2018, the California Supreme Court adopted the ABC Test for independent contractors and explained how to distinguish them from employees. The move shocked employers and businesses across the state and has many wondering about the continuing viability of ...

Federal Contractors – New Executive Orders Regarding Retaliation

Here is an interesting article from our friends at Thomson Reuters regarding two new Executive Orders recently signed by President Obama: The first is Executive Order No. 13665 (79 Fed. Reg. 20,749, Apr. 11, 2014), which prohibits retaliation by covered federal ...

Employment Law:Workplace Gambling

Employment Law – Workplace Gamling Although employers do not think about employees when we think about basketball, the annual frenzy of “March Madness” (the NCAA men’s basketball tournament) has changed that perspective. The outplacement firm that reports the basketball tournament’s ...

Setting Expectations for Your Small Business Employees in California

California Employment Law Blog Series #3 In our last blog in the California Employment Law blog series, we touched on the differences between employees, independent contractors and interns. As we discussed, each business relationship has benefits and drawbacks, as a ...

Employment Law – Workplace Romance and Privacy

Employment Law In a recent survey taken by Vault.com’s, (“2014 Office Romance Survey”), 56 percent of survey participants said they engaged in a workplace romance. The survey also evidenced that both men and women equally participated in a workplace romance. ...

Extension of an Employee’s Probationary Period

An employer’s extension of a recently-retained employee is not an action employers summarily or frequently take. Oftentimes the employer is afraid to modify its probationary period policy for fear of repercussions if it/he/she does so. Other times, the employer simply ...

Checklist for Determining an Independent Contractor vs. an Employee

California Labor Code section 3353 defines an Independent contractor as a “person who renders service for a specified recompense for a specified result, under the control of his principal as to the result of his work only and not as ...

Recent Employment Case Law

Brinker Rest. Corp. v. Superior Court, 53 Cal. 4th 1004 (2012) California Labor Code Section 512 and Wage Order No. 5 require employers to provide hourly employees with an uninterrupted lunch break of at least 30 minutes, wherein the employee ...

Employment Law Topics

California Adopts the ABC Test for Independent Contractors: A Radical Change for Employers

Federal Contractors – New Executive Orders Regarding Retaliation

Employment Law:Workplace Gambling

Setting Expectations for Your Small Business Employees in California

Employment Law – Workplace Romance and Privacy

Extension of an Employee’s Probationary Period

Checklist for Determining an Independent Contractor vs. an Employee

Recent Employment Case Law

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