I hope you saw this before the holidays. Richard Bromley and Kacy Coble have a very helpful summary of the most significant new employment laws that took effect or will be taking effect in 2017 in California.

If you have operations in the Golden State or are thinking about moving there, you will not want to miss it.

Whether justified or not, the recent spate of high-profile police shooting cases throughout the United States has brought national attention to the issue of whether law enforcement officers should be using body cameras while on duty. Currently, a debate rages among the various stakeholders concerning the pros and cons of body cameras.

Those in favor of body cameras argue that the ...

Federal contractors were thrilled when Judge Marcia Crone issued a preliminary injunction in late October against President Obama’s Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order.

But Judge Crone’s decision did not block the entire rule. Although the preliminary injunction kept the bulk of the rule from going into effect, the portion requiring pay transparency took ...

We're on holidays/vacation until the new year and will not have any posts this Friday or the following Friday, December 30. There may be exceptions for breaking employment-related news, assuming there is any. But we'll try not to have any. You've been through enough this year.

We wish you and your loved ones a very happy holiday season. Thank ...

Happy Holidays!  It's that time of year again.  A feeling of excitement in the air, presents, parties, frivolity, EEOC charges . . . No, this is not a guessing game of “which word doesn’t fit.” With the end of the year coming to a close, and the holiday season culminating with one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year, EEOC charges and other workplace complaints are bound to ...

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

a new set of burdensome regs.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

Two bias suits,

And a new set of burdensome regs.

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

Three comp claims,

Two bias suits,

And a new set of burdensome regs.

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

Four bathroom bills,

Three comp ...

The November-December edition of Constangy's Executive Labor Summary is out! David Phippen has a good one (does he ever have any other kind?), including the current status of the U.S. Department of Labor's overtime rule (sick) and the Persuader Rule (still a pulse, but death is imminent), Secretary Thomas Perez's run for chair of the Democratic National Convention, and some dude in ...

In our December edition of ConstangyTV's Close-Up on Workplace Law, host Leigh Tyson interviews Tommy Eden about the growing number of states that have legalized marijuana use and how employers in "legal pot" states should respond. Please tune in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5a2xqwhU4

Last week, I talked about why documentation is so important as part of an employer's legal defense.

Today I'd like to talk about what good documentation should contain. Some of these are so obvious as to be almost ridiculous, but many supervisors and managers omit them. (Trust me!)

No. 1: It shows who wrote it. Remember when your fifth grade teacher gave you a zero on that project that ...

With employee mobility and desire for flexible work arrangements continually increasing, some employers are turning to non-compete agreements to limit the disruption to their workforces. But as some employers have been using non-competes with low-wage, unskilled workers, criticism has followed—including a recent White House call for states to ban non-compete ...