by D. Gregory Valenza | Aug 30, 2020
Here are some important cases California employers should be reviewing – In-House Investigations When employers assign HR workers to do internal investigations of misconduct, ensure the investigator doesn’t act in bad faith to carry out a pre-determined...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Jul 26, 2020
The California courts of appeal have been busy socially distancing themselves from enforcing arbitration agreements. Mostly. (To be fair, they enforced one too. I just couldn’t resist the COVID joke.) It gets lonely on lockdown. Sue me, if you can find an...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Jan 13, 2020
AB 51 – California’s latest anti-arbitration law- remains on hold. As we told you here, a district court temporarily blocked enforcement of the new law, which would curb mandatory employment arbitration. The district court extended its temporary...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Dec 30, 2019
AB 51 attempts to ban employers from requiring applicants or employees from entering into arbitration agreements as a “condition” of employment. I posted about the law here. Although the law tries a novel approach to banning arbitration, a federal...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Sep 12, 2019
The California Supreme Court threw a curve ball at employment lawyers today, on both sides of the courtroom. Justice Cuellar issued the unanimous Court’s opinion in ZB, NA v. Superior Court (opinion here). This is a case about PAGA, the Private Attorney General...
