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Injured gardener was not an employee covered by workers’ compensation

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

The Metro Diner hired Luis Lara as a gardener twice during a 12-month period to prune the bushes around the diner

Account executives were improperly classified as exempt employees

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

Maria Pellegrino and other account executives of temporary staffing firm Robert Half International (“RHI”) filed this action against RHI for its failure to pay overtime compensation and commissions and to provide meal periods and itemized wage statements and for unfair competition

“Kin care” statute is inapplicable to uncapped sick leave policies

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

Plaintiffs in this case worked as service representatives for different Pacific Telesis companies, which are signatories to various collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”

Tip-pooling is not prohibited under FLSA

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

Misty Cumbie worked as a waitress at the Vita Café (owned and operated by Woody Woo, Inc

California Supreme Court expands judicial review of employment arbitration awards

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2010

On April 26, the California Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Pearson Dental Supplies, Inc. v. Superior Court (S167169) that will likely have resounding implications for the enforceability of arbitration awards

Start-up company owned source code that was developed by employee

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

Michael Byce developed the source code used in the software of a digital audio larynx device that JustMed owned

Flight engineer’s whistleblower claim was not preempted by federal law

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

Martin Ventress, a flight engineer for Japan Airlines (“JAL”), alleged his employment was terminated in violation of the California whistleblower statute (Labor Code 1102.5(b)) for allegedly reporting safety violations six months after they occurred

Trial court properly denied class certification to restaurant managers

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

The plaintiffs in this case are salaried managers at El Torito, El Torito Grill and GuadalaHarry’s restaurants in California from May 2002 to the present

Porsche dealer may owe “finder’s fee” to salesperson

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

Alex Wald, who is in the business of “finding, buying and then selling again used Porsches,” found 11 Porsches for Truspeed (a car dealer), which Truspeed sold without paying Wald the finder’s fee

Employment screening business had right to republish Megan’s Law information

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

William Mendoza sued ADP Screening and Selection Services, Inc. (“SASS”) for violations of Penal Code 290.4 and 290.46, the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act and declaratory relief based upon SASS’s apparent disclosure to a prospective employer of information uncovered during a background check conducted on Mendoza, indicating his status as a registered sex offender listed on the Megan’s Law website