Social media policies and the NLRB what employers need to know *

USA - March 1 2013
Social media policies. Chances are your company has one, is in the process of drafting one, or is worried about not having one. Employees continue to…

Co-authors: Sheeva J. Ghassemi-Vanni, Michael A. Sands.

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Cal Supreme Court refuses to immunize employers in mixed-motive discrimination cases, but significantly limits remedies *

USA - February 20 2013
Resolving a question that has been pending for three years, in Harris v. City of Santa Monica, the California Supreme Court held that, in…

Co-authors: Daniel J. McCoy.

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Kmart victorious in first suitable-seating trial *

USA - February 20 2013
Kmart emerged triumphant in the first of the "suitable seating" cases to be tried. In Garvey v. Kmart, a California federal district court evaluated…

Co-authors: Daniel J. McCoy.

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California Supreme Court announces sea-change in rules governing use of parol evidence to show fraud in contract interpretation *

USA - February 20 2013
In Riverisland Cold Storage, Inc. v. Fresno-Madera Production Credit Association, the California Supreme Court clarified and ultimately rewrote the…

Co-authors: Daniel J. McCoy.

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FB posts of Mexico vacation land employee on FMLA leave in hot water *

USA - February 20 2013
In Lineberry v. Richards, an employee on FMLA leave due to back and leg pain so angered her colleagues by her Facebook posts of a Mexico vacation and…

Co-authors: Daniel J. McCoy.

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