Legal News

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

EB-1 and EB-2 Visa Status
Obtaining a Green Card Without Going Through the Labor Certification Process

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

Walt Disney
alleging a Sikh American applied for a job with Disney but was told he did not have the "Disney look" - apparently referring to his beard and turban, which is required by his religion.

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Employment
Employee rights including labor law, harassment, safety, unpaid overtime, discrimination and union disputes.

UPS Faces Fair Labor Wages Class Action
UPS Faces Fair Labor Wages Class Action

Hewlett-Packard and Staples
allegedly violated antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement ink jet printer cartridges.

US Federal Government
allegedly violated the niversal Declaration of Human Rights by deporting undocumented parents of US born children.