California employers should continue to use California-specific forms given the differences in information an employer can obtain under California (versus federal) law.

In "Katz v. Yahoo", Michael Katz entered into a retention bonus agreement as part of Yahoo's purchase of Interclick.

In September 2011, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Goodwill Industries for alleged retaliation.

In "Douglas v. Ad Astra Info. Sys. LLC", a software company in Kansas sponsored an off-site social event at an amusement facility that included go-cart racing.

In EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc. dba Hollister Co California, LLC, a federal district court in California recently held that Abercrombie & Fitch’s "Look Policy" violated a part-time associate’s religious rights when it prohibited her from wearing a hijab at work.

On August 26, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law an amendment to Section 218.5 of the California Labor Code, which requires courts in lawsuits for the nonpayment of wages, fringe benefits, health and welfare contributions or pension fund contributions to award reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs to the prevailing party.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") proposed a rule in February of this year that EEO-1 reports must include employee W-2 earnings and hours worked broken down by gender and race/ethnicity and across 12 pay bands starting from the EEO-1 reports due on September 30, 2017.

If such notice is not provided, employers may permit, but cannot require, employees to draw down accrued vacation or PTO.

The Court was unpersuaded by IBM's argument that the "routine processing" of an accommodation by a large corporation will take some time, and concluded that a jury must assess the lawfulness of IBM's actions.

On July 5, 2017, Washington became the fifth state to guarantee paid family leave for employees when Governor Jay Inslee signed the program into law.

Following an investigation by the federal Department of Labor concerning minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping violations for 74 employees – including clubhouse assistants, video operators and managers – of the San Francisco Giants baseball team over a three year period, the Giants agreed to pay $544,715 in backpay and liquidated damages to the underpaid workers.

Just recently did an update of my Internet of Things ( IoT ) Resources Library page.Highlights include links to four items published by NIST.

On February 24, Meta released LLaMA and offered it to researchers at institutions, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations under a noncommercial license.

We analyzed the terms of 152 venture financings closed in the fourth quarter of 2015 by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley.

We analyzed the terms of 175 venture financings closed in the third quarter of 2015 by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley.

The convertible debt market has remained remarkably stable over the last 15 months, despite considerable economic uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fenwick's James Fuller, Larissa Neumann and Julia Ushakova-Stein co-authored the latest installment of their monthly Tax Notes column examining recent U.S. tax developments...

Angelica Salceda is working to ensure that pregnant and parenting students in California’s Central Valley schools are afforded equal educational opportunities.

We analyzed key aspects of initial public offerings for 33 U.S. technology and life sciences companies that went public in the first half of 2013.

In the second video of a three-part series, Fenwick attorney Paul Smith talks about the growing anticipation surrounding this strong, conductive and flexible material.