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Arbitration agreements are a fact of life these days, especially in the employment context.  To be enforceable, those agreements must be fair, both procedurally and substantively.

If a plaintiff wins an employment discrimination case under Title VII, he/she is entitled to an award of attorney’s fees.  A question we are asked all the time is: what happens if the plaintiff loses?  Can the defendant claim an award of fees too?The answer is:  it depends.

One of the central issues in wage & hour litigation is whether the case is suitable for class action treatment.  Indeed, the class certification issue is the most contentious wage & hour issue outside of the classification question.In Tien v.

An employer who fails to provide break time to employees may be subject to certain penalties.  The key law in this area is section 226.7 of the code section is section 226.7 of the California Labor Code.

The California Supreme Court is serious about protecting and enforcing mediation confidentiality.  To be sure, the Evidence Code provides explicit protection.

The factual scenario in Bardzik v. County of Orange is a familiar one.  Jeffrey Bardzik was a lieutenant in the Orange Count Sheriff’s Department under the command of Sheriff Michael Carona.

In Florence County School District Four v. Carter, 510 U.S. 7 (1993), the U.S. Supreme Court set minimum criteria that must be met before a guardian may obtain reimbursement for the unilateral placement of a child in a private school.

We are often asked by school district employees whether it’s good strategy to make themselves scarce when it comes time to receive a March notice regarding a possible layoff. Generally, avoiding service of notices is not a good practice, and a case from the court of appeal highlights the problem.

In an important decision, the California Court of Appeal has ruled that statutory preferences for pro-labor speech (picketing, publicizing the existence of a labor dispute, etc.

Parents can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Ninth Circuit has decided the case of RP Prescott Unified School District.  In that case, parents sued a school district, contending that the special education services for their autistic son were inadequate.