Employers often assume that if the paycheck clears and the hourly rate is legal, the wage and hour side of the business is fine. That assumption misses most of where California claims actually come from. Misclassification is the first trap. …
Employers running background checks often assume that if a conviction happened somewhere else, it’s fair to weigh it however they see fit. San Francisco just narrowed that assumption. Effective Aug. 10, 2026, amendments to the city’s Fair Chance Ordinance bar…
Most employers assume a demand letter means the sender did their homework. That assumption is getting more expensive to hold. A growing share of the demand letters landing on employers’ desks share the same fingerprints. Boilerplate structure. Every conceivable Labor…
You asked for time off to go to your kid’s school meeting, and your manager acted like you were asking for a personal favor instead of something the law actually protects. This shows up constantly as the school year starts…
“He knew where I parked. He knew when my shift ended. He knew where my kids went to school.” That is not a stranger. That is a coworker. By the time most people start describing a pattern like that out…
Your spouse came home on leave from deployment, and your employer treated your request for time off like an inconvenience instead of something the law actually addresses. This is common enough, with California’s large military and veteran population, that the…
Federal agents showed up at your workplace, and your employer walked them straight into the back office without asking to see a warrant. This happens more often than people realize, and California law actually puts specific limits on what an…
E-Verify recently expanded its Status Change Report to flag invalidated work authorization documents across five categories instead of just one, which means more employers than before are going to see a name appear on that report and assume it is…
If your business has San Francisco employees, the eligibility clock you have been tracking for the city’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance is about to change, and the change arrives on a size-based schedule that is easy to miss until it…
Most companies assume their existing D&O, E&O, EPLI, and cyber policies simply carry over to whatever new technology the business adopts. For years, that assumption was mostly safe, because AI use was not addressed one way or the other in…
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