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Frivolity

Archer Norris
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USA
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August 30 2011

What's that old saying that a good lawyer can argue just about anything?

Business travel to California just got a lot more expensive

Archer Norris
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USA
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July 1 2011

The California Supreme Court recently held that employees who perform work in California get paid overtime under California labor law, even if it’s not the employee’s primary workplace

Huge Wal-Mart sex discrimination case fails

Archer Norris
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USA
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June 20 2011

The US Supreme Court has rejected a gender discrimination class action filed on behalf of as many as 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees

Cybersquatting and the courts

Archer Norris
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USA
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April 1 2011

A former employee who refused to give up a domain name that he had registered for the benefit of his former employer has been hit with a sizeable damages verdict

Wanted: statutory interpretation

Archer Norris
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USA
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March 15 2011

An ongoing and unresolved question in California is whether Labor Code section 2750.5 applies to homeowners and makes them the "employer" of an unlicensed contractor and the unlicensed contractor's employees

Doubling down: meal and rest break violations get even more expensive for employers

Archer Norris
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USA
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February 17 2011

California hourly employees are entitled to meal breaks (30 minutes, unpaid, for roughly every five hours of work) and rest breaks (10 minutes, paid, for roughly every four hours of work

U.S. Supreme Court: arbitration is the new employment law

Archer Norris
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USA
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November 3 2010

The employment law component of the docket during the most recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court was dominated by decisions on arbitration

What you (and your employees) say at work will be used against you

Archer Norris
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USA
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August 11 2010

In Reid v. Google, Inc., the California Supreme Court confirmed that virtually anything an employer says can and will be used against the company in an employee suit

An employee by any other name

Archer Norris
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USA
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July 16 2010

It can be tempting, and in the short run financially preferable, for a business to avoid protections afforded to "employees" by instead retaining "independent contractors" to do the same work

California Supreme Court expands definition of “employer”

Archer Norris
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USA
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June 28 2010

The California Supreme Court gave employees a new weapon in the ongoing wage and hour litigation explosion