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Federal Courts: Cosmetology Student-Workers May Pursue Unpaid Wages
Aspiring barbers and cosmetologists enroll in beauty schools for a chance at a promising career in cosmetology. Cosmetology students pay […]
Ninth Circuit Rejects FedEx Effort to Portray Drivers as Independent Contractors
Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held, under California law, that FedEx drivers are employees, not independent contractors. As […]
PAGA: A Decade of Victories
This summer marks the ten-year anniversary of California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, an essential weapon in an employee […]
In Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers, California Supreme Court Holds that Questions Defining “Employers” Liable...
Today, the United States Supreme Court sharply divided along partisan lines in decisions where the right-wing majority bent over backward […]
California Supreme Court in Salas v. Sierra Chemical Holds that Undocumented Workers Are Not Barred...
Today, in Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co., the California Supreme Court addressed a longstanding question regarding undocumented workers’ rights. The […]
In Iskanian v. CLS Transportation, California Supreme Court Holds PAGA is a Qui Tam Statute,...
The Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, Labor Code §2698, et seq. (PAGA), allows an aggrieved employee to bring representative […]
