Labor & Employment
The U.K. Modern Slavery Act of 2015, which is expected to go into effect this fall, differs from the California law in some important respects.
The woman had filed discrimination and retaliation claims against her employer and maintained she took the files, which included confidential student records, to support her claims.
In its next term, the Supreme Court will hear a California case challenging a law that compels teachers to pay […]
When the California Labor Commissioner decided in favor of a plaintiff driver who had alleged that Uber had misclassified her […]
A trade organization and a small business advocacy group challenged the ambush election rules that went in effect in April with a four-point argument that was rebuffed by a federal judge on all four counts.
Now that a California regulator has ruled that Uber drivers should be considered employees, rather than contractors, other companies in […]
There has been a surge in lawsuits making claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which most employers now understand applies not just to credit reports, but to all kinds of consumer reports.
Automating employee search would speed up the process, reduce costs, and result in a more diverse workplace, say proponents of […]
Whether they are worried about getting blind-sided by a definitional change of “contract worker” (as signaled by a recent California […]
A jury rejected gender discrimination claims lodged by Ellen Pao, a former employee at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner […]
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