Home

You can tell a lot about people’s attitude toward work by the phrases they use. For a long time, the workplace promoted what was popularly known as “the Puritan ethic”—success comes from keeping your nose to the...

While at a bar at the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, Sana Kappouta was shoved by a drunk coworker but wasn’t injured. After she reported the incident, her employer tried to transfer her to a different position...

In this George Floyd era, the country at large is grappling with many areas in which police reform is needed, including use-of-force policies, disciplinary practices, overly technical legal impediments to holding errant...

In 2003, California passed the Private Attorneys’ General Act (PAGA), which allows employees to file claims as a ‘proxy’ for the state to collect civil penalties. The Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (HWHFA)...

One solid way to avoid liability for disability discrimination is showing the termination occurred before the employer was aware of any disability. That, in turn, may hinge upon when the termination decision was made and...

A case that made it up to the California Supreme Court is back again. Last time around, the supreme court decided meal and rest break penalties were wages. Now the issue is whether the failure to timely pay or report the...

Employers are becoming very sophisticated in drafting arbitration agreements that comply with procedural and substantive unconscionability standards. In a recent decision, however, even a valid arbitration agreement...

As an employer, one of your worst fears may be that a disgruntled or entrepreneurial former employee may try to share your internal operations, documents, or trade secrets. What you can do to protect your business in...

Just when it seems consumers have caught on to one particular online scam or phishing expedition—think of the ubiquitous Nigerian prince email scam that first began making the rounds in the 1990s—a new one comes along...