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Paid out for Retirement

August 25, 2014 Legal Team
McLean v. State of California (2014), Cal.App.4th, No. C074515, decided on August 19, 2014, that a class action could proceed for waiting time penalties under Labor Code section 203 for the employer's failure to pay retirees their final wages at the time they retired.  Pursuant to Labor Code section 202, employers have to pay...
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Quarrelling Lovers’ Unstable Behavior Not Enough to Warrant Employer’s Demand for Medical Examination

August 22, 2014 Legal Team
White Lake Ambulance Authority, in fair Michigan, where we lay our scene. The tiffs between two Emergency Medical Technicians, one married, and one not stirred up action in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.Emily Kroll was apparently infatuated with her coworker Joshua Easton, who was married. The pair frequently quarreled in person, via e-mail,...
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When Ignoring Sexual Harassment Turns Deadly

August 18, 2014 Legal Team
Alisha Bromfield worked as a flower arranger for Grand Flower Growers. Often, she was assigned to make arrangements at a local Home Depot store in Cook County, Illinois. Bromfield, 21, was sexually harassed by her supervisor, Bryan Cooper, but no matter how many times she reported it to both Grand Flower Growers and Home...
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Mid Range Jobs Still Low

August 8, 2014 Legal Team
Amid the state's rise in employment, there is one area of the labor market that has remained neglected: mid-range jobs. The swift increase in jobs have been concentrated in the low-wage areas, and on the higher end of things, continual consolidation has created a higher pay at the top of the salary spectrum.When middle...
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The Bar Exam Crisis Continued…

August 7, 2014 Legal Team
Semi-annually, graduated, but not yet barred, law students, hunker down and take a life-changing exam. Ask any attorney about taking the bar exam, and he or she will most likely begin regaling you with tales about sleepless nights studying delirious flashcards, and caffeine…lots of caffeine.Last week, the bar takers across the country finished their...
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