Employment Law News and Insights

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Assembly Bill 51 (the "Employment Arbitration Law"), which prohibits employers from requiring that job applicants or existing employees agree to arbitrate claims brought under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act or Labor Code as a condition of obtaining or continuing employment. This...

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McDonald's Corporation ("McDonald's") was named as a defendant in a putative class action filed by the employees of the Haynes Family Limited Partnership, which operated eight McDonald's franchises in the Bay Area. The putative class members alleged they were denied overtime premiums, meal and rest breaks and other violations of...

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Under the FLSA, several courts have weighed the following factors in assessing successor liability: 1) the successor's actual notice of the pending lawsuit, 2) the predecessor's ability to provide the relief before the sale, 3) the predecessor's ability to provide relief after the sale, 4) the successor's capacity to produce...

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