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Muniz v. United Parcel Service Inc.
Employee gets more in attorney fees than damages after winning FEHA gender discrimination suit, but must go back over paralegal fees within award. 		Employment Law Dec. 5, 2013
Horne v. International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 16
Union ends African-American member’s discrimination suit for failure to hire after learning during discovery that prior felony conviction disqualified him. 		Employment Law Dec. 4, 2013
Martinez v. Joe’s Crab Shack Holdings
Managers at Joe’s Crab Shack restaurants may maintain wage and hour class action against company in relation to work they allegedly performed on nonexempt tasks. 		Employment Law Dec. 4, 2013
Hagen v. City of Eugene
Police department does not retaliate against officer in violation of First Amendment by demoting him after he complained about unsafe discharges of firearms. 		Employment Law Dec. 3, 2013
Jones v. Farmers Insurance Exchange
Claims adjusters may file class action against insurance company due to denial of pay for work before shifts, but must name new class representative. 		Employment Law Nov. 28, 2013
Kurz v. Syrus Systems LLC
Employer may not sue former employee for malicious prosecution based on his claim for unemployment benefits, even if judge denied that claim as frivolous. 		Employment Law Nov. 24, 2013
Rivera v. Peri & Sons Farms Inc.
Nevada farm must reimburse travel and immigration expenses incurred by Mexican farmers working under Dept. of Labor’s temporary employment program. 		Employment Law Nov. 14, 2013
Volpei v. County of Ventura
County loses bid to arbitrate employee's statutory discrimination claims because its collective bargaining agreement with union did not clearly waive right to sue. 		Employment Law Nov. 8, 2013
Poole v. Orange County Fire Authority
Firefighter must be given chance to respond to negative comments against him in fire chief’s daily logs, because logs were used to make personnel decisions. 		Employment Law Nov. 5, 2013
Chavarria v. Ralphs Grocery Co.
Ralphs Grocery may not force former deli clerk to arbitrate claims under California labor law because arbitration policy in employment application was unfair. 		Employment Law Oct. 29, 2013
State of Arizona v. ASARCO LLC
In sexual harassment case, six-figure punitive damages award is excessive where jury only awarded one dollar in other damages to victim. 		Employment Law Oct. 25, 2013
Harris v. Amgen Inc.
Employees of pharmaceutical giant Amgen Inc. may pursue ERISA claims related to company's handling of employee stock-ownership plans. 		Employment Law Oct. 24, 2013
Cornejo v. Lightbourne
Employee does not have to file her discrimination claim with California before suing Dept. of Social Services under Whistleblower Protection Act. 		Employment Law Oct. 23, 2013
Williams v. Chino Valley Independent Fire District
Order 		Employment Law Oct. 22, 2013
Sonic-Calabasas A Inc. v. Moreno
Court cannot prematurely deny arbitration for pay dispute without addressing employee’s claim that ‘Berman hearing’ waiver in arbitration agreement was unreasonable. 		Employment Law Oct. 18, 2013
Rope v. Auto-Chlor System of Washington Inc.
Employer cannot duck former manager’s disability discrimination lawsuit when it fired him to avoid giving him paid leave to donate kidney to his sister. 		Employment Law Oct. 17, 2013
Benton v. Telecom Network Specialists Inc.
Telecommunications company must face class action filed by its technicians based on alleged failure to adopt policy regarding meal and rest breaks. 		Employment Law Oct. 17, 2013
Mendez v. Mid-Wilshire Health Care Center
Health care center may not force its former nurse’s assistant to arbitrate her discrimination claims against it by invoking union’s collective bargaining agreement. 		Employment Law Oct. 16, 2013
Davis v. Kiewit Pacific Co.
Female employee may continue to demand additional damages from her employer based on inadequate portable toilets for women at her job site. 		Employment Law Oct. 9, 2013
Peng v. First Republic Bank
Former assistant manager must arbitrate her discrimination case against bank based on agreement that was not oppressive, surprising or one-sided. 		Employment Law Oct. 3, 2013
Abdullah v. U.S. Security Associates Inc.
Security guard company must continue to confront class allegations that its policy of requiring guards to work through lunch violated California labor law. 		Employment Law Sep. 30, 2013
American Corporate Security Inc. v. Su
Employer may not fight California Labor Commissioner’s order against it by filing suit, when she already sought to enforce her order. 		Employment Law Sep. 30, 2013
Peng v. First Republic Bank
Former assistant manager must arbitrate her discrimination case against bank based on agreement that was not oppressive, surprising or one-sided. 		Employment Law Sep. 27, 2013
Independent Training and Apprenticeship Program v. California Dept. of Industrial Relations
Contractors may not employ apprentices to work on public works projects in California because those projects were not for federal purposes. 		Employment Law Sep. 19, 2013
Natkin v. California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
Contract attorney may not deduct expenses in setting up his own business from amount he earned within a week when asking for unemployment benefits. 		Employment Law Sep. 19, 2013
Cho v. Chang
Former employee, who claimed she was sexually harassed, may not be sued by coworker for harming his reputation through sexual harassment allegations. 		Employment Law Sep. 9, 2013
Alamo v. Practice Management Information Corp.
Female employee, who alleged she was fired because she took maternity leave, must retry case against former employer because jury was given incorrect instructions. 		Employment Law Sep. 6, 2013
Wang v. Chinese Daily News Inc.
District court must reconsider class certification in wage-and-hour action against newspaper in light of U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘Wal-Mart’ decision. 		Employment Law Sep. 4, 2013
Carter v. Entercom Sacramento LLC
Radio station is not required to pay fees and costs incurred by employee in defending against lawsuits related to station's deadly water-drinking contest. 		Employment Law Sep. 4, 2013
Bain v. Tax Reducers Inc.
Accountant who resigned from employment after new employer tried to reclassify him as independent contractor is not entitled to liquidated damages. 		Employment Law Aug. 29, 2013
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