California court holds sexual orientation harassment may qualify as sexual harassment under FEHA, allowing employees to avoid arbitration under the EFAA.
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Bryan W. Patton is a shareholder in the Labor and Employment practice group. Bryan focuses his practice on defending employers in class action and single plaintiff employment matters asserting violations of state and federal employment law.
California court holds sexual orientation harassment may qualify as sexual harassment under FEHA, allowing employees to avoid arbitration under the EFAA.…
On Aug. 21, 2025, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Iloff v. LaPaille (18 Cal. 551 (2025)), addressing the standard employers must meet in order to assert a…
Continue Reading Ignorance Is Not Bliss for Employers Asserting Good Faith Defense to Liquidated Damages in Minimum Wage Claims
The city of Los Angeles’s recently passed Fair Workweek Ordinance (the Ordinance) takes effect April 1, 2023. The ordinance aims to ensure Los Angeles retail employees have more predictable work…
Continue Reading Los Angeles Retail Employers: New Fair Workweek Obligations Take Effect April 1. Are They Fair?
California employers have been grappling with the difficult and fact-intensive issue of classifying their workers as employees or independent contractors ever since the California Supreme Court issued its landmark 2018…
Continue Reading Ninth Circuit Holds AB-5 Applies to Motor Carrier Workers in California
On Jan. 14, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling on whether the “ABC test” articulated in its 2018 Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Superior Court of Los …
Continue Reading CA Supreme Court Confirms Dynamex Applies Retroactively
Recently enacted AB 3075 effective January 1, 2021 provides that a successor entity to a debtor employer with a wage/hour liability is liable for any wages, damages, or penalties owed…
Continue Reading California Expands Successor Liability for Judgments Against Employers
California employers have frequently been faced with confusing standards for the application of California’s stringent wage statement requirements for employees that routinely travel between states as a function of their…
Continue Reading High Court Articulates Test for Applicability of California Wage Statement Requirements to Interstate Workers