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Pass the Worker Protection Act. by Rich Smith • Jan 28, 2021 at 11:00 am
Is your boss trimming your wages? ZORAN ZEREMSKI/GETTY IMAGES
Every once in a while the fact that Americans lose three times more money to wage theft than they do to all other forms of theft shocks me out of an afternoon stupor and prompts me to reach for my pitchfork. But now that farm-tool-wielding mobs are a bit passé again, employees vulnerable to wage-thieving bosses will have to settle for the opportunity to rally behind the Workers Protection Act, a bill from Democratic State House Rep. Drew Hansen that would allow workers to sue on behalf of the state and their-coworkers when their bosses violate labor laws.
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Shirvanyan v. Los Angeles Community. College District, No. B296593, 2020 WL 7706321 (Cal. Ct. App. Nov. 30, 2020)
Summary:
The availability of a reasonable accommodation is an element of a claim under the Fair Employment and Housing Act for failure to engage in the interactive process.
The Workers’ Compensation Act does not bar emotional distress damages where those damages arise from an employer’s failure to provide reasonable accommodations or engage in an interactive process, rather than because of a physical injury suffered at work.
Facts: Plaintiff Anahit Shirvanyan, an assistant kitchen worker for Defendant Los Angeles Community College District, was diagnosed with nerve damage and carpal tunnel in her wrist in 2014. She notified her supervisors of her carpal tunnel and wrist pain and often sought help from coworkers performing her kitchen tasks. Her supervisors never altered Plaintiff’s job duties or ga
Labor Law Attorneys, Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, File Lawsuit Against 1st Light Energy Inc. for Allegedly Violating California Labor Code
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The lawsuit alleges 1st Light Energy Inc. violated the California Labor Code by failing to compensate their employees for missed meal and rest breaks, as well as allegedly failed to reimburse for business expenses.
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For more information about the class action lawsuit against 1st Light Energy Inc., call (800) 568-8020 to speak to an experienced California employment attorney today. SAN JOAQUIN, Calif. (PRWEB) December 23, 2020
The Sacramento employment law attorneys at Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, filed a lawsuit against 1st Light Energy Inc., alleging the company violated California Labor Code by failing to provide accurate wages, among other allegations. The lawsuit against 1
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On December 10, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held its Class Action Symposium. The symposium is as timely as ever. Food, beverage, and consumer product class actions are rocketing, with projected filings up 24 percent over 2019. The Northern District of California sees a substantial subset of these filings, earning it the nickname “the Food Court.”
The symposium featured distinguished speakers such as the Honorable Charles Breyer, Erwin Chemerinsky, and several of the nation’s leading class action litigators. In a matter of hours, the symposium packed in a variety of top-of-mind topics for practitioners: (1) guidance for class action settlements, (2) key developments in Ninth Circuit case law, and (3) predictions about class action cases at the Supreme Court.