Orange County Employment Attorney: Reports have been popping up this week detailing how Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, has implemented a system where managers are forced to rank Yahoo employees on a bell curve and then fire those at the low end. This seems to be the second major HR disaster coming from Mayer’s reign after…
Orange County Employment Attorney: California’s Paid Family Leave Law (PFL) was the first in the country to provide partial wage replacement to employees who had to take time off work to care for seriously ill family members or to bond with newborns or adopted children. Paid Family Leave provides up to six weeks of…
Orange County Employment Attorney: Just last week, on Monday, August 12, 2013, Governor Brown signed into law a bill that amends California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act to specify that sexually harassing conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire. Senate Bill 292, sponsored by the California Employment Lawyers Association, overrules the Court of Appeal’s…
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Orange County Employment Attorney: Wrongful termination lawsuits against Los Angeles celebrities are a hot topic. Erlinda T. Elemen, worked as a nanny for Sharon Stone, former model and actress, from 2006 to early 2011. Elemen claimed to have been fired from her position after Elemen refused to return overtime pay that Stone had given her.…
Orange County Employment Attorney: Urasawa, the trendy and enormously expensive Beverly Hills sushi restaurant, ranked second most expensive restaurant by the Daily Meal, will have to pay its workers large amounts of fines totaling $65,785. Three of Urasawa’s workers will be paid $38,585 for unpaid work accrued after not receiving overtime pay for work over…
Orange County Employment Attorney: Orange County’s injured athletes might need to return home. The proposal, AB 1309, was unveiled last week by Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Henry Perea (D-Fresno). The bill will effectively ban professional sport team players who work outside of California from filing for workers’ compensation benefits for work-related injuries. Proponents of this…
Orange County Employment Attorney: A big law firm with an office in Orange County, Greenberg Traurig LLP, and one its former attorneys, Francine Griesing, will move towards mediation to settle claims in a $200 million class action case involving sex discrimination. Griesing has claimed that the firm has systemically discriminated against female shareholders in regard…
Orange County Employment Attorney: Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, has now disallowed employees to work from their home. This has led other companies, including those in Orange County, to question whether telecommuting works or not. Critics on one side say that there is no accountability; working at home inhibits creativity and damages company culture. On…
Orange County Employment Attorney: In a rare interview, Lynsi Torres, the 30-year-old heiress to the Orange County Irvine-based In-N-Out, spoke about the employment practices and company management involved in running one of the most admired fast-food chains in the nation. In-N-Out’s managerial approach has given In-N-Out a long-held reputation as an attractive place to work.…