California Labor & Employment Law Blog
Legal news and tips for employees in California.
Author: Eugene Lee is a solo practitioner in Los Angeles.
Blawg Related Categories: Labor & Employment • States • California • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from California Labor & Employment Law Blog
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How Much Do Lawsuits Cost?
People in the US love to rail about the fact that there are too many lawsuits, too many greedy plaintiffs gaming the system, too many people refusing to take responsibility for their own errors. Numerous…
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The McDonalds Coffee Cup Case
Are there too many lawsuits in the US? Are there too many plaintiffs who are just trying to game the system and hit the judicial jackpot? Are there too many frivolous lawsuits like the McDonald’s…
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Yours Truly Will Be MIA for 3 Weeks
Sorry folks but it looks like I won’t be posting here for a while. I’m about to head into 3 straight weeks of back-to-back depositions (lawyer-speak for witness interviews in a lawsuit). For the non-lawyers…
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Thank You to Michael Fox of “Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer”
Michael Fox runs one of the oldest and most respected employment law blogs (blawgs?) in the business, "Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer" . He was blogging long before it became fashionable. I’ve been a regular…
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Arbitration Works Better than Lawsuits . . . But for Whom?
This gem of an editorial appeared in the Wall Street Journal: "Arbitration Works Better than Lawsuits" . The author is a lawyer at Hogan & Hartson, an 800+ lawyer law firm whose enviable roster of…
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‘Desk Rage’ on the Rise
If you thought ‘road rage’ was a problem, make way for ‘desk rage’. According to this Reuters report, "Desk rage spoils workplace for many Americans" , anger in the workplace is on the rise. And…
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Former CIA Operative Sues Agency for Suppressing WMD Intelligence
It takes a lot of courage for an employee to stand up to their employer when asked to break the law or look the other way. For those who choose to Do the Right Thing,…
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Bigotry Gets Subtle – Code Word Slurs in the Workplace
Do you know what a "reggin" is? Tomeika Broussard didn’t either, but when her supervisor called her a "reggin", she suspected it was something bad. Later, she figured out what it was: the n-word spelled…
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H1-B Visa Workers: Know Your Rights
I had an interesting call from a client today. Let’s call him Roger. Roger is originally from India but had recently come to California to work for a software company on an H1-B visa, a…
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Respected Judge Posts Sex Images Online
As you may know, California falls within the jurisdiction of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the chief judge of that court is one Alex Kozinski. A brilliant jurist, he was first appointed…