Question: This question is not especially “quirky.” I know that last year, you described the important employment cases that the U.S. Supreme Court was going to consider in the following year. I’ve seen a lot of press recently about the...
Quirky Question # 128: I work for a California employer with nonexempt retail employees who earn commissions on their sales. We have been sued for failing to provide our employees with meal and rest breaks. I understand the company may...
Wage and hour class actions comprise approximately one third of all class action litigation. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has taken note as during the past six months, a number of significant wage and hour cases were decided by...
Quirky Question # 107: I keep hearing about companies getting hit with class action lawsuits under California’s tough wage and hour laws. As I understand it, when a company treats its employees the same under a single policy, it is...
Quirky Question # 89: Our company develops software and is based in California with another location in Arizona. On occasion, our software developers in Arizona come to our California facility to perform some work. Two of our Arizona based developers...
Quirky Question # 86: We run an insurance company. Some members of our workforce are employees; some are independent contractors. Admittedly, some of our independent contractors have held this status for some time. We don’t pay our independent contractors overtime...
Quirky Question # 60: We are having trouble managing exempt employees’ paid time off (PTO). Our current policy allows new employees to begin earning PTO right away, with the potential to earn up to 120 hours of PTO per calendar...
Quirky Question # 48: The regular business hours for our IT Help Desk are 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Obviously, people sometimes need IT support outside those hours, and the four non-exempt employees who staff the Help...
Quirky Question # 28: Our company has a manufacturing facility that has several product assembly lines. Most of our production employees are required to wear basic smocks, hardhats, safety glasses, earplugs and gloves. When the employees enter the building prior...
Quirky Question # 25: We own and operate glass container manufacturing plants around the country, including Seattle. One of our employees resides in Pennsylvania, and regularly travels around the country to work as a foreman on glass furnace rebuilds. This...
Jack SullivanJack is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employment group, where he focuses his practice on employment adv...
Nisha VermaNisha has delivered results for her clients with respect to all aspects of employment litigation, including com...
Aaron GoldsteinAaron is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employ...
Hannah GreenHannah is an associate in the Costa Mesa offic...
Michelle HaynesMichelle’s practical and thorough approach to l...
Susan LorencSusan is a strategic labor and employment advisor...
Nicholas J. PappasNick litigates and counsels with respect to com...
Ketul PatelKetul advises employers on the full spectru...
