Your final review said things you know are untrue, and a few weeks later you were let go. It feels like the kind of lie the law should punish, and many people in that position reach for the same word…
Many California employers think of whistleblower and False Claims Act exposure as a federal-contractor problem, something that applies to companies doing business directly with Washington and nobody else. That is too narrow a read of the landscape. The federal False…
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 didn’t get fired. You quit, because staying started to feel impossible. This shows up after a demotion nobody explains, a schedule that keeps changing without warning, a written warning that appears out of nowhere, or a manager who makes…
“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…
Many employers treat a workplace investigation as a means to an end. Gather the facts, reach a conclusion, move on. As long as the conclusion is right, the thinking goes, the process doesn’t much matter. Recent litigation says otherwise. Employees…
You posted an opinion about a story that was dividing the country, and it never crossed your mind that your job was the thing on the line. Then Monday came, and your manager wanted to talk before you had even…
Many California employers assume that if federal labor enforcement backs away from scrutinizing confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in separation agreements, the pressure on those clauses eases across the board. It does not, and treating it as though it does is…
Finding out an employee lied on an application or misrepresented credentials creates urgency. In California, the legal exposure often comes from what the employer does next: how it investigates, how it documents materiality, and whether the response matches established policy…
You finally got a lawyer working on your case. The filing was submitted. Then you found out the brief cited cases that do not exist. The lawyer used an AI tool to help draft it and did not check the…
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