Joseph C. Liburt
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Articles
To Free or Not to Free: The DOL’s New Overtime Regulations May Give Employees the Ability to “Unplug”—But at What Cost?
USA - August 17 2016 Today, mobile technology allows many exempt employees to work remotely and perform work outside traditional working hours. Some commentators assert…
Decades Later, Questions Linger Over Disability Access Online, But ADA Litigation Continues
USA - July 16 2016 When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990, computers used floppy disks and the “World Wide Web” was still being tested by…
Managers Beware: Individual Liability Confirmed Under USERRA
USA - February 5 2016 The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (“USERRA”), 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4335, prohibits discrimination against employees…
Down the arbitration rabbit hole: Ninth Circuit refuses to enforce employee’s waiver of PAGA claims
USA - October 7 2015 On September 28, 2015, the Ninth Circuit held in Shukri Sakkab v. Luxottica Retail North America, Inc. that the FAA does not preempt the rule that…
Further down the rabbit-hole we go: California’s troubling treatment of incentive-based compensation systems
USA - July 30 2013 On July 17, 2013, the California Supreme Court denied review of the Second Appellate District's decision in Gonzalez v. Downtown LA Motors, 2013 Cal…
