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Get up-to-speed on new 2017 California-specific laws that will create greater compliance challenges for California employers - challenges that all managers from the largest companies to the smallest startups need to know.
We will see significant changes in the new year, not only on the national political landscape, but also movement on local legal trends in California that affect employers and employees every day.
New legislation for 2017 ranges from expanding the Equal Pay Act to include race and ethnicity, to new penalties for employment verification violations, restroom signage, and more! Make sure you get the latest updates at this 2017 Legal Brief.
2016 significant case law to be covered include:
* Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo (2016) 136 S. Ct. 1036: In an FLSA class action, employees expert's report was a permissible means of establishing hours worked donning and doffing by showing that each class member could have relied on that sample to establish liability had each brought an individual action.
* Morris v. Ernst & Young, LLP(9th Cir. 2016) 2016 WL 4433080: Petition for certiorari filed on September 8, 2016. Class action waivers in an employer's arbitration agreement violate employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act, and are unenforceable.
* McLean v. State of California(2016) 1 Cal.5th 615: California Labor Code provisions requiring prompt payment of final wages apply not only to employees who quit their employment, but also to employees who retire.
* Kilby v. s Pharmacy, Inc.(2016) 63 Cal.4th 1: Suitable seating requirements under the Wage Orders includes an analysis of the totality of the circumstances including relevant tasks, physical layout of the workspace, and the employer's business judgment.
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