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Date	Title
09/09/08	California Governor Enacts Special Paycheck Rules For Temporary Workers And Criminal Penalties For Falsified Timesheets
08/12/08	California Supreme Court Narrows Enforceability Of Non-Solicitation And Effect Of Release Clauses
07/23/08	California Court of Appeals Rejects Employer Strict Liability For Missed Meal Breaks
06/23/08	Alert: Supervisor Assurance Trumps Employer Policy - Creates Privacy Expectation In Electronic Communications
06/05/08	Alert: California Court Holds That Holiday Pay Premium Need Not Form “Regular Rate Of Pay” Under California Overtime Statute
03/21/08	California Court Provides No On-Call Pay For Apartment House Managers Restricted To Their Residence
03/06/08	California Supreme Court Protects Supervisors From Retaliation Liability
02/08/08	Alert: California Court Expands Administrative Overtime Exemption
11/14/07	Alert: California High Court Allows Employers To Reimburse Expenses By Lump Sum
08/31/07	Alert: California Supreme Court Invalidates Some Agreements to Individually Arbitrate in Lieu of Class Litigation
08/28/07	Alert: California Supreme Court Holds That Bonus Awards May Consider Store Losses
08/22/07	Alert: Court Finds FedEx Drivers Are Employees Rather Than Independent Contractors
06/16/07	Alert: Customer Service Representatives Found Not To Qualify As Overtime Exempt
04/17/07	Alert: California Supreme Court Extends Liability For Missed Meal Breaks
11/09/06	Alert: Important Changes in Sick Leave Policies Mandated for San Francisco Workers
09/01/06	Alert: California Court Finds Restrictive Covenants Not Salvaged By Narrowness
06/30/06	FAQs - Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets
06/26/06	Alert: United States Supreme Court Broadens the Standard for Anti-Retaliation Claims by Employees
05/15/06	Alert: California Court Holds That Disability Accommodation Did Not Require Assigning New Supervisor Or Maintaining Job Position During Indefinite Leave
04/24/06	Alert: California Supreme Court Holds That Workplace Sexual Banter Does Not Necessarily Support A Sex Harassment Claim
04/07/06	Some Sarbanes-Oxley Protections for Whistleblowers Found Not to Cover Foreign Employees
03/28/06	Top Five Most Common Employment Mistakes By Wineries And Vineyards - And How To Fix Them
03/22/06	The Monitored Workplace: Companies can protect assets and reduce liability by tracking employee communications.
01/26/06	Alert: California Court of Appeal Finds Accommodation Does Not Require Converting Temporary Position To Permanent
01/16/06	Protecting Trade Secrets: Best Practices from Hiring to Terminating and Everything in Between
12/01/05	Protecting Trade Secrets Part 1: Maximizing the Chances of Proprietary Information Being Deemed a Trade Secret
11/16/05	Alert: Seminal E-Discovery Case Ends With $29.2 Million Jury Verdict
11/02/05	Alert: California Court Allows Employer To Incorporate Expense Reimbursement Into Base Salary
08/15/05	Alert: California Supreme Court Finds That Individual Corporate Officers and Directors Were Improper Defendants In Overtime Claim
08/01/05	Cal Law Employment Roundtable
07/25/05	Alert: California Court Allows Partial-Day Vacation Without Defeating Exemptions
07/19/05	Alert: California Supreme Court Finds That Consensual Relationship Between Co-workers May Create Hostile Work Environment For Other Employees.
07/01/05	Protecting Trade Secrets: Proactive steps employers can take as employees come and go
02/11/05	Protecting Trade Secrets in Knowledge-Based Industries
12/22/04	Alert: Governor Schwarzenegger Slows Down Proposed Regulatory Easing of Lunch Break Rules for California Employers
12/15/04	Alert: California Court Permits Suit Against Prospective Employer for Withdrawing a Job Offer
10/08/04	Alert: Anti-Harassment Training Is No Longer Optional: What You Need to Know About New California Training Requirements
09/15/04	The New Bounty Hunter Law and Its Recent Reforms
08/18/04	Alert: California Supreme Court Warns Against Predatory Recruiting
06/29/04	Alert: Employees May Obtain State Family Leave Payments Beginning July 1, 2004
01/08/04	Alert: San Francisco Minimum Wage Increase to Take Effect February 23, 2004
12/10/03	Alert: New Whistleblower Posting Requirements Begin January 1, 2004
11/26/03	Alert: California Supreme Court Holds That Employers May Reduce Sexual Harassment Damages Through Effective Anti-Harassment Policy
11/24/03	Alert: California Court Upholds Right to Terminate Employee for Dating a Subordinate
11/10/03	Alert: New Minimum Wage Law Enacted for San Francisco Workers
11/03/03	Alert: Agreements to Arbitrate Employment Disputes: What Can California Employers Require?
10/16/03	Alert: Key Employment Legislation Signed at Eleventh Hour
06/17/03	Alert: California Court Approves Unfair Business Practice Claim For Age Discrimination
05/15/03	Alert: Federal Court Assumes Most Employment Arbitration Agreements Unenforceable
02/25/03	Alert: California Supreme Court Confirms Broad Disability Discrimination Protections
12/19/02	Alert: California Court Sets New Evidentiary Standards for Considering Conduct of Sexual Harassment Claimants: Creates Strategy Issues for Employers
10/10/02	Alert: California Removes Obstacles to Employer Investigations
10/02/02	Alert: Governor Davis Approves Layoff Notice and Family Leave Pay Laws; Preserves Arbitration Agreements
05/01/02	Alert: Background Checks and Arbitration Clauses
11/01/01	Alert: Current Leave Issues: Military Leave, Protected Leave, Federal Family Medical Leave

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