You asked for time off to go to your kid’s school meeting, and your manager acted like you were asking for a personal favor instead of something the law actually protects. This shows up constantly as the school year starts…
“He knew where I parked. He knew when my shift ended. He knew where my kids went to school.” That is not a stranger. That is a coworker. By the time most people start describing a pattern like that out…
Your spouse came home on leave from deployment, and your employer treated your request for time off like an inconvenience instead of something the law actually addresses. This is common enough, with California’s large military and veteran population, that the…
Federal agents showed up at your workplace, and your employer walked them straight into the back office without asking to see a warrant. This happens more often than people realize, and California law actually puts specific limits on what an…
E-Verify recently expanded its Status Change Report to flag invalidated work authorization documents across five categories instead of just one, which means more employers than before are going to see a name appear on that report and assume it is…
If your business has San Francisco employees, the eligibility clock you have been tracking for the city’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance is about to change, and the change arrives on a size-based schedule that is easy to miss until it…
Most companies assume their existing D&O, E&O, EPLI, and cyber policies simply carry over to whatever new technology the business adopts. For years, that assumption was mostly safe, because AI use was not addressed one way or the other in…
“I stopped mentioning it,” she said. “I figured it was just something I had to push through on my own.” The exhaustion, the disrupted sleep, the trouble concentrating by afternoon: she assumed none of it was her employer’s problem to…
“I complained about my coworker’s harassment years ago,” a client once told me. “When I finally got fired, I figured it had to be connected.” It felt connected. It wasn’t legally connected, because what got her fired was something she…
“I signed an arbitration agreement when I was hired. I assumed that meant this had to go to arbitration, no matter what happened.” Not necessarily. A federal law passed a few years ago, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault…
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