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California Supreme Court Nears Ruling on Meal Breaks
… a major wage-hour legal battle pending before the California Supreme Court . California labor regulations require that "No employer ..... Brinker argued in a brief. During a hearing in November, California Supreme Court judges focused on the exact language of Section 512 …
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Legal Briefing: Discrimination as a Substantial Motivating Factor
… that the requested instruction was legally correct and that refusal to give it was prejudicial error.The California Supreme Court affirmed the appeals court's decision. The state Supreme Court held that when a jury finds that unlawful …
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California Supreme Court Rules on Workers' Compensation COLA Case
The case involved an unnamed accountant/controller injured in 2004 who was eligible to receive $728 weekly for life.
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Worker's Loss-Of-Consortium Tort Claim Cannot Proceed: Court
… from performing "necessary duties as a husband," the California Supreme Court said August 20. O'Neil Watrous worked for Santa Fe ..... of LeFiell's alleged Section 4558 violation. The California Supreme Court unanimously reversed that ruling August 20. In its …
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Lessons From a California Discrimination and Harassment Case
… or the other. Recently, the California Supreme Court took up this issue in Roby v ..... liable for harassment.) The California Supreme Court reversed and revised the verdict ..... behavior. In contrast to the earlier California Supreme Court decision in Reno v. Baird , in …
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Citing a U.S. Supreme Court Ruling, California High Court Slashes Wrongful Firing Award
The California Supreme Court cited McKesson Corp.â s â low degree of reprehensibilityâ ..... compensatory damages to $1.41 million. On appeal, the California Supreme Court disagreed and said there was sufficient evidence to support …
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The Death of the Noncompete
The California Supreme Court recently affirmed that ..... Arthur Andersen , the California Supreme Court examined an employment ..... to the employee." The California Supreme Court found that Section 16600 …
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Friends Ruling Seen as Victory for Employers
… more than five years of litigation, the much-ballyhooed "Friends" sexual harassment case ended with a California Supreme Court ruling that appears, at most, to have made it harder for employees to win damages for "untargeted" sexual …
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Decision Time on Same-Sex Benefits
The recent California Supreme Court ruling allowing for same-sex marriages may not stick, but employers throughout the U.S. had better know now whether they will …
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Ruling in Bipolar-Threat Case Brings Mixed Legal Opinions
… employment opportunities for individuals with psychiatric disabilities,” they warned in a petition asking the California Supreme Court to review the case. Any “weird” behavior, they said, could now be grounds for termination. The decision …
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State Law Favored Over Feds in Overtime Case
The California Supreme Court stepped away from a federal test that is used to determine whether employees were exempt administrative employees and therefore …
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Out-of-State Workers Due Overtime for California Work: Appeals Court
… ruling Tuesday and asked the state Supreme Court to decide the underlying questions of California law. The California Supreme Court issued its ruling June 30. In its decision Tuesday, the 9th Circuit agreed with the Supreme Court ruling …
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A Return to At-Will Employment
It's a hard fall for some employees, but a decision by the trend-setting California Supreme Court might bring business back to real employment at will.
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Worker Privacy Not Just a Problem for Erin Andrews
… secretly videotape their (clothed) employees? The California Supreme Court recently said yes. Although the California Constitution ..... invasion, but not ‘highly offensive’ But the California Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and dismissed the case …
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Privacy Concerns and Employee Surveillance
… Hillsides. The court of appeals reversed, and Hillsides sought review of the decision by the California Supreme Court . The California Supreme Court found in favor of Hillsides. It acknowledged that the employees had a reasonable expectation …
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California to Recognize Same-Sex Marriages Performed in Other States
… by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and the state Senate did the same September 9. In May, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 , a measure that voters approved in November 2008 that forbids gay marriage in California …
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A Global Perspective on Investigating Employee Misconduct
… Hudig Hall International, Inc. , 17 Cal. 4th 93; 69 Cal. Rptr. 2d 900 (1998). In that case, the California Supreme Court concluded that the standard of proof is one where the investigation was conducted in good faith—meaning that …
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Restaurant Held Liable for Unintentional ADA Violation
… discrimination against disabled people under state civil rights law even if the discrimination is unintentional, the California Supreme Court said in a decision issued Thursday, June 11. The case involved Kenneth Munson, who has a physical disability …
