“That’s just how he is,” my manager said. A regular customer had just grabbed my arm hard enough to leave a mark, and that was the entire response. Nothing. No apology. No incident report. No conversation about what happens the…
A common assumption among employers running salaried teams: paying well above the state minimum wage means exempt classifications are safe by a comfortable margin. That margin shrinks every year California’s minimum wage rises, and it is about to shrink again….
A common assumption among small business owners: if a worker signs an independent contractor agreement and sets their own hours, the classification is settled. Recent litigation involving spa and salon workers at a hospitality business shows how that assumption fails…
Plenty of California employers track representation across their teams and treat it as a harmless management habit, something closer to a dashboard than a decision. A recent $25 million settlement between the Department of Justice and a major federal contractor…
You ask for a reserved parking spot closer to the entrance because a medical condition makes the long walk from the back lot difficult some days. Your manager says no, the lot is first-come, first-served for everyone, and that is…
The U.S. Department of War’s SkillBridge program lets employers train and evaluate a transitioning service member for up to 180 days before deciding whether to bring them on as a regular hire. Because the participant is still paid by the…
When an employee reports a workplace injury, a common instinct is to notify the insurance carrier and let the claims process take over from there. That instinct is incomplete. It skips what happens in the first hours and days after…
Many employers assume a statutory settlement offer under Code of Civil Procedure § 998 has to be a single, clean number to count for cost-shifting purposes. The California Supreme Court just confirmed that assumption is too narrow. In Gorobets v….
An AI notetaker sitting in on a termination meeting feels neutral. It just listens and writes things down. That feeling is wrong. In California, that assumption is not safe, and it can create two separate legal problems at once: a…
You signed an agreement calling you an independent contractor, so you assume that settles your employment status. It does not. This is one of the most litigated questions in California employment law, and it comes up often enough that the…
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