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Campaigns, Elections, Voting and the Workplace
Obama or Romney? “Yes” or “No” on Proposition 30? With the election only several weeks away, these questions are starting to make their way into the workplace as political debates among co-workers...
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New California Laws Limit Access to Employee, Student Usernames and Passwords
Governor Jerry Brown last week signed two new privacy laws that will go into effect January 1, 2013. AB 1844 and SB 1349 prohibit employers, colleges and universities from requiring or asking...
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EEOC Wastes No Time Implementing New Enforcement Goals by Cracking Down on...
As part of its Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2012-2016 (“the SEP”), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) identified the following five priorities for national enforcement in the...
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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Public Employers
With the beginning of each new year, we make resolutions that often involve improving ourselves: lose weight; eat healthier; get organized. The new year is also a good time for personnel and human...
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Genetic Information: A Protected Classification for the 21st Century
In the 1997 science fiction film Gattaca, the main character Vincent lives in a futuristic world where success is based on an individual’s genetic profile instead of experience or education. Because...
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5 Resolutions for the New Year
It’s that time of year again to reflect on this year’s achievements and set goals for the new year. With the beginning of 2014 upon us, we encourage personnel and human resources directors, managers...
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What Happens in Vegas Might Be Covered by the FMLA
The FMLA provides an eligible employee the right to 12 workweeks of leave to care for the employee’s spouse, child or parent with a serious health condition. Consequently, employers generally grant...
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Performance Evaluations: Why It’s A Good Thing For Public Employers
In the corporate world, the practice of giving annual performance reviews to employees is under attack. Leading business magazines and newspapers have printed articles advocating for the elimination...
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PERB Expands Right to Union Representation to Interactive Process Meetings
The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) recently held in Sonoma County Superior Court (Sonoma) that employees are entitled to union representation at interactive process meetings. With this...
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Prevention, Prevention, Prevention! It’s Time to Audit Your Agency’s...
Prevention of liability starts with auditing your agency’s personnel rules. Indeed, in an employment-related lawsuit, the applicable personnel rule is often “Exhibit A.” Each year, public agencies...
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An Employee Has Raised a Disability for the First Time During a Skelly. What...
This post was authored by Kristin D. Lindgren Intro Employers are well aware that employee disabilities can create mine fields due to the technical nature of disability discrimination laws. Even the...
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Don’t Wait for a Scandal: Now is the Time to Update Your Agency’s Harassment...
The allegations of sexual harassment and assault levied against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein have been front page news for the last week. The board of directors of his company swiftly voted to...
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The Annual Look at the Weird, Wacky and Just Plain Strange Employment Lawsuits
It is that time again. These are actual employment cases. Really, they are. Mad at your co-workers? Tell a friend, not Facebook Jayne Brill sued her former employer and the Virginia Employment...
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Sexual Harassment Training Under Scrutiny: It’s Not Just What You Say, But...
In the wake of recent attention to sexual harassment in the workplace, employers and members of the public are asking: what about all of those sexual harassment trainings we required? Are they...
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Performance Evaluations: Why It’s A Good Thing For Public Employers
In the corporate world, the practice of giving annual performance reviews to employees has come under attack in recent years. Leading business magazines and newspapers have printed articles advocating...
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Balancing Conflicts Between Work And Religion
This post was authored by Elizabeth T. Arce. In December 2011, a Macy’s employee was fired because she refused to allow a teenage transgender customer use of the women’s dressing area. Natalie Johnson,...
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Origins and Applications of the Home Rule Doctrine
This post was authored by Lisa S. Charbonneau. Under Article XI, Sections 4 and 5 of the California Constitution, charter cities and counties have exclusive authority to regulate and determine their...
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