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• Blog: COVID-19: Labor & Employment
  Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: COVID-19 Response Resource Center
  Date: July 02, 2020 Title: How Employers Can Best Accommodate Working Parents During COVID-19 & Avoid Discrimination Claims
  Summary: COVID-19 has resulted in no schools, no child care, and no after school activities, leaving no option for many working parents but to stay home and care for their kids while working full-time jobs. Working parents are struggling to balance childcare responsibilities and job responsibilities during these tough times. Additionally, employers are struggling to stay in business, leading to record lay-offs and unemployment. The result? Legal experts predict a significant increase in litigation....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Date: June 30, 2020 Title: Fictitious Business Names on Wage Statements: An Invitation for Penalties in California
  Summary: Complying with California law on wage statements can be tricky for employers. Pursuant to Labor Code Section 226(a)(8), wage statements must identify the employer’s legal name. An employer can comply with this requirement by listing either the legal entity name or a registered fictitious business name (dba) on the wage statement. Failing to do so can expose employers to extensive liability on a class-wide basis through a class action or Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) representative action....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: Employment Advice & Counseling
  Date: June 24, 2020 Title: Common Law Claims for Wrongful Termination Based on a Claimed Violation of Public Policy: Five Tips for Employers to Avoid Liability
  Summary: The at-will employment doctrine provides extensive flexibility to both employers and employees to conclude their employment arrangements. As a general matter, this at-will rule permits an employer to terminate an employee for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all as long as the termination does not implicate a protected federal or state statutory basis—most particularly, statutory protections against employment discrimination. ...
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Blog: COVID-19 Response Resource Center
  Blog: COVID-19: Cybersecurity & Online Threats
  Date: June 18, 2020 Title: Business Email Compromise Attacks on the Rise in 2020
  Summary: A business email compromise (BEC) is a cyber crime that utilizes access to an organization’s email to defraud that organization and its employees, customers, or partners. In 2020, COVID-19 has provided attackers with a new source for BEC exploits. Attackers are taking advantage of the need for communications surrounding COVID-19 and increased remote work connections from employee home networks to their employers’ corporate networks....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: Employment Advice & Counseling
  Date: June 15, 2020 Title: U.S. Supreme Court Outlaws Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ Employees
  Summary: On June 15, 2020, the United States Supreme Court held that Title VII, the federal employment law that prohibits discrimination “because of sex,” bars discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation and transgender status. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and four liberal members of the Court, penned the 6-3 decision granting nationwide protection to LGBTQ+ employees....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Date: June 11, 2020 Title: A Quick Checklist for Navigating Requests for Paternity Leave in California
  Summary: Employers commonly process requests from expecting mothers for maternity leave. However, when it comes to welcoming a new baby, it’s all hands on deck. As such, it is important for companies to be knowledgeable about the different types of leave that may apply to expecting fathers. ...
• Blog: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  Date: June 03, 2020 Title: California AG Submits CCPA Regulations for Final Approval, Paving the Way Toward Enforcement
  Summary: On Monday, June 1, 2020, the California Attorney General’s Office announced that it had submitted the final version of its proposed regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for review and approval. ...
• Blog: Intellectual Property & Technology
  Date: May 29, 2020 Title: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Recent Decision in Molson-Coors v. Anheuser-Busch Affirms Lesson: Choose Words Wisely
  Summary: In Molson-Coors Beverage Company v. Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the age old lesson of choosing your words wisely. The entire litigation arose out of Molson-Coors themselves listing ‘corn syrup’ as an ingredient in both their Miller Light and Coors light beers. ...
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: COVID-19: Labor & Employment
  Blog: COVID-19 Response Resource Center
  Blog: Employment Advice & Counseling
  Date: May 21, 2020 Title: Three Tips to Mitigate Employment Discrimination Risks As Stay-at-Home Orders Are Lifted
  Summary: Many businesses are now being challenged to return some or all of their furloughed employees to work based on the modification or elimination of stay-at-home orders and other state and local restrictions. This post discusses three tips that employers should consider to help mitigate the risks of exposure to employment discrimination claims under federal, state, and local laws as this process unfolds....
• Blog: Labor & Employment
  Blog: ADA Compliance & Defense
  Blog: COVID-19: Labor & Employment
  Blog: Employment Advice & Counseling
  Blog: COVID-19 Response Resource Center
  Date: May 20, 2020 Title: Enforcing Safety Measures While Maintaining Compliance with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act: Four Considerations
  Summary: Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability “in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation.” Notably, this prohibition applies to both the built environment and to the policies and procedures affecting how a business provides goods and services to its customers. ...