Labor and Employment
Labor and Employment
Our firm focuses exclusively on management-side employment law in a wide variety of industries: construction, manufacturing, health care, senior housing and care, finance, transportation and logistics, government, and public agency. We represent prominent national clients, as well as clients with a statewide and regional presence. Our relationships with many of these have lasted 30+ years in part due to our reputation for strategic thinking, creative problem solving and leading edge advocacy.
Experience
- Civil rights and impact litigation
- Complex employment class actions
- Employment discrimination disparate impact class actions
- FLSA collective actions
- PAGA representative actions
- Wage and hour & meal period and rest break class actions
- Employment Agreement arbitrations
- Disability discrimination litigation
- Individual employee employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination litigation
- Employee benefits litigation
- Employment agreements
- Employment law advice and counseling, including advice concerning federal, state and local laws mandating employee leaves of absences, advice concerning employee disciplinary issues, counseling and advice concerning employee job performance issues and counseling and advice concerning employee separations including, reductions in force, layoffs, job eliminations and involuntary separations
- Advice concerning or leading collective bargaining negotiations
- Advice and counsel concerning the administration of collective bargaining agreements
- Labor arbitrations under collective bargaining agreements
- Advice and counsel concerning labor organizing drives, union picketing and strikes
- Workplace investigations and various manager and supervisor trainings
- Administrative proceedings and hearings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), California’s Public Employee Relations Board ( PERB), the California Department of Civil Rights (CDCR) and the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Personnel policies and handbook
- Advice and counsel and litigation concerning trade secrets and unfair competition issue
- Wage and hour advice including DLSE and DOL investigations
- Whistleblower litigation
Key Contacts
News & Resources
Is the Unionization of Uber and Lyft Drivers On California’s Horizon?
California lawmakers introduced a bill that would give Uber and Lyft drivers the right to unionize and negotiate better working conditions, despite being classified as independent contractors.
2025 Employer Services Seminar
The recordings of this 2025 Employer Services Seminar took place in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. The presentation slides and full videos from the individual sessions are available below.
2024 Mid-Year Labor & Employment Update
Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) Reform – Will It Really Solve The Problem?
A discussion of what we know, and what we don't know, about the PAGA deal the Governor brokered this week.
Workplace Violence Prevention Plans: The Countdown is On
California employers now have less than one month left to comply with Cal/OSHA’s requirement that they institute Workplace Violence Prevention Plans (WVPPs) to help prevent acts of violence in the workplace.
Employer's Good Faith Belief Is A Defense To Wage Statement Penalties, Says The California High Court
The California Supreme Court ruled in Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc. that an employer's good faith belief that it complied with California's wage statement law, Labor Code section 226, is a defense to the employer's liability for wage statement penalties. For penalties to be owed, section 226 requires that an employer's failure to comply with the statute be "knowing and intentional."
What The FTC’s Ban On Non-Compete Agreements Will Mean For California
The FTC's new rule prohibiting non-compete agreements has already made a big impact even before going into effect. But what does that mean for California employers specifically, given California's existing rules on non-compete agreements? This alert will discuss the new FTC rule and how it compares to the California legal landscape.
Artificial Intelligence Seminar - March 2024
2024 Labor & Employment Seminar
The recordings of this 2024 Labor & Employment Update seminar took place in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. The presentation slides and full videos from the individual sessions are available below.
California Employers Must Provide Five Days of Paid Sick Leave Starting January 1, 2024
Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 616, which increases, from three to five days, the amount of mandatory paid sick leave employers must provide their employees.
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