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Exempt Partial Day Absences : To Dock Or Not To Dock – That Is The Question
- Issue 4, 2005 Companion Dogs As A
Resonable Accommodation
- Issue 1, 2004Working At Home Not Always A Resonable Accommodation
- Issue 1, 2004Proving “Direct Threat” Defense to Americans with Disabilities Act Claims
- Issue 3, 2003 Mitigating Measures Under the ADA : The EEOC Issues Final Rule - Summer 2000 Supreme Court Limits ADA Coverage - Summer 1999 Beware of ADA Decisions - Fall 2001 Davis Signs Bill on Age Discrimination - Summer 1999Age Discrimination (AB 1599) - Fall 2002Gender Discrimination (AB 196) - Issue 4 2003 Can A Bonus Plan Lawfully Deny a Future Bonus
To Terminated Employees? - Issue 4 2006 Special Requirements for Arbitration Agreements - Spring 2002 EEOC Can Pursue Damages Claim Despite Arbitration Agreement - Spring 2002Background Checks - Fall 2002 (AB 1068 and AB 2868) Intermittent Bonding Leave in California - Issue 3 2004 Cash Payments in Lieu of Health Insurance- Issue 2, 2003 Cal-OSHA Appears What to Do? - Summer 2002For Some Employees, Clothes Make the Wage - Issue 3, 2003 Inadequate COBRA Notice Bites Employer - Issue 3, 2003 Commission Plan Wording is Everything - Issue 4, 2006 Optional Commuting is not Work - Issue 4, 2006 Significant Changes To The Computer Professional Exemption Compensation Requirements - Issue 1, 2006 Overtime Exemption For Computer "Professionals" -- Revisited - Issue 1, 2007 Computer Professionals Overtime Exception - Revisited- Issue 2, 2003 Computer Professional Exemption Adopted - Fall/Winter 2000Destroying Consumer Report Information - Issue 2 2005 Combating Employees’ Destruction of Company Computer Files - Issue 3 2006Disposal of Consumer and Employee Records - Issue 3 2005 Relief for Corporate Officers in California Wage Claim Cases - Issue 2, 2003 Disabled Workers - Allow Them To WorkRegardless of a Safety Risk ? - Summer 2000 Disabilities Reasonable Accommodation:The Interactive Process - Summer 2001 Who's Disabled? : California's New Liberal Definition - Fall/Winter 2000 Employer May Have to Rehire Employee Who Was Discharged for Drug Use - Summer 2002Disclosing Working Conditions - Beware- Issue 1, 2003 Disclosing Wages or Working Conditions (AB 2895) - Fall 2002 Can You Fire An Employee For Disclosing His Own Wages - Summer 2002Court Upholds Hot-Air Balloonist's Discrimination Claim - Spring 2002Do Discrimination Laws Apply Abroad? - Summer 2001 Can Firing An Employee For Angry Outbursts Violate Anti-Discrimination Laws?- Summer 2001 Discriminatory Insults May Depend Upon Context, Inflection, Tone of Voice, Etc. - Issue 2 2006 Domestic Partner Health Benefit Law (AB17) - Issue 4, 2003Drug Testing - The Basics - Issue 2, 2005A History of Violence: Due Dilignece in Hiring - Issue 2, 2006The Supreme Court Expands the Scope of Employer Retaliation - Issue 3, 2006 Importance of Timely Written Employment Offers - Issue 1, 2004 New Employment Laws - Fall 2002 New Employment Laws - Winter 2000 New Employment Laws for 2002 - Winter 2002 When Can You Terminate or Change an Employment Policy ? - Summer 2000 Choose Your Attorney UnderEPLI - Issue 2 2005 Reimbursement For Necessary Expenses - Issue 1 2006 New Record-Keeping Rule for Internet Applicants - Issue 2 2006 Leave for Crime Victims to Attend Judicial Proceedings (SB478) - Issue 4 2003 Family Medical Leave Rights – Do Your Homework - Issue 1 2001 Paid Family Leave Benefits Start July 1, 2004 - Issue 1, 2004 Hourly Pay For Exempt Employee During FMLA Leave - Summer 2001 Paid Family Leave - Who Pays? - Fall 2002 (SB 1661) Suspicious FML Medical Certifications - Issue 3 2005 Electronic Form I-9 - Issue 3 2005 Have You Conducted Your Harassment Prevention Training ? – Better Late Than Never - Issue 1 2006 Health Insurance Act of 2003 (SB2) - Issue 4 2003Distinction Between Employees And
Independent Contractors - Issue 2 2004 Independent Contractor Crackdown - Spring 2001Employers Must Report Miscellaneous Independent Contractors - Summer 2000Interns and Trainees When Do They Need To Be Paid- Issue 1, 2003 Leave Rights Not Absolute - Fall 2001Make Up Time - Beware - Issue 2, 2003Truck Drivers’ Meal And Rest Breaks - Issue 1, 2006 When Must Medical Examinations of an Applicant Be Conducted - Issue 2 2005 Medical Information : Obtaining Waivers - Fall 2001Megan's Law Website - Not For Employment Use- Issue 1 2005 Military Leave - Issue 1, 2003Military Leave - Fall 2001Out of State Non-Competes May Be Enforceable in California - Issue 1, 2003 California Daily Overtime is Coming Back! - Fall 1999 Is a Network Operation Engineer Exempt from Overtime?
An Overtime Exemption Example
Federal “Fair Play” Overtime Initiative – In California – Its “No Play” - Issue 2 2004 Must An Employer Pay For Unauthorized Overtime? - Issue 4, 2005 Access to Payroll Records (AB 2412) - Fall 2002 Using A PEO - What Employers Need to Know - Issue 1 2005 Penalty for Failure to Report Serious Occupational Injury (AB 2837) - Fall 2002 Reductions in Force (AB 2957) - Fall 2002Reductions in Force : Be Forewarned - Spring 2001Releases Are Not A Panacea - Issue 4, 2005Non-Union Employees Have No Right To Representation During Investigatory Interviews - Issue 2 2004 Sexual Harassment : Investigate and Take Corrective Action - Summer 2000 Reminder: Mandatory Sexual Harassment Training in California - Issue 1 2005 Anti-Harassment (AB76) - Issue 4 2003 EEOC’s Questions and Answers on Harassment - Summer 1999 Strict Liability for Harassment : Will it Change? - Spring 2002 Is Staring at a Fellow Employee Sexual Harassment - Fall 2001Jury Stings Employer in Sexual Harassment Case - Issue 1 2005 Sick Leave Protection (SB 1471) - Fall 2002Employer Subjected to Generalized Threats of Workplace Violence May Seek a Protective Injunction
- Issue 3 2003 Temporary Employees : Do They Belong to You?- Issue 3 2004 Label Your Trade Secrets or Lose Them - Fall 2002 Trade Secret Violations: Giving Instructions to Future Employees - Issue 3 2005 Cal-WARN Makes Common Sense - Issue 1 2006 Whistleblower Actions Under Sarbanes-Oxley - Issue 3 2006 Whistleblower Protections (SB777) - Issue 4 2003
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