• posted: May 14, 2020
• Tod C. Gurney
• Employment Law

When Re-Opening, Remember to Update Your Injury and Illness Prevention Program If your business is getting ready to re-open, you need to consider yet another item on the re-opening checklist: an Read More

• posted: Apr. 30, 2020
• Andrea Nocito
• Employment Law

Shelter-in-Place Orders are Extended Across the San Francisco Bay Area Effective May 3, 2020, the following San Francisco Bay Area counties will extend their existing shelter-in-place orders through May 31, Read More

• posted: Apr. 27, 2020
• leslieburkhammer
• Employment Law

Supplemental Paid Sick Leave For Food Sector Workers On April 16, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom, signed Executive Order N-51-20 (the “Order”) requiring large employers (500+ employees nationwide, not including independent Read More

• posted: Apr. 22, 2020
• Tod C. Gurney
• Employment Law

New Face Covering Requirements in Several Bay Area Counties and Cities On Friday April 17, 2020, several Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Sonoma) and cities (Fremont Read More

• posted: Apr. 20, 2020
• leslieburkhammer
• Employment Law

Updated Guidance To Employers From Federal EEOC and OSHA Regarding COVID-19 Within the last few days, two federal agencies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Read More

• posted: Apr. 02, 2020
• Tod C. Gurney
• Employment Law

DOL Issues Temporary Regulations for the FFCRA The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued temporary regulations for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) on April 1, 2020. The regulations answer a number Read More

• posted: Mar. 31, 2020
• Tod C. Gurney
• Uncategorized,  Employment Issues,  Employment Law,  Employee Rights

New Round of Guidance on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act As explained in our prior blogs (see Families First Coronavirus Response Act – What We Know and Additional Guidance on Read More

• posted: Mar. 25, 2020
• Tod C. Gurney
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law,  Employee Rights

Additional Guidance on the Family First Coronavirus Response Act Last week, we wrote about the passage of the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). As mentioned in that piece, the FFCRA stated Read More

• posted: Mar. 22, 2020
• leslieburkhammer
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law,  Employee Rights,  WARN Act

Cal-WARN Suspended: Guidance For Employers Due to Executive Order N-33-20 (“Stay At Home Order”) and the economic downturn caused by COVID-19, many businesses are being forced to close or lay off Read More

• posted: Mar. 19, 2020
• Andrea Nocito
• Civil Litigation,  Business

Deploying Force Majeure Clauses in the Age of COVID-19 As a result of the continuing coronavirus pandemic more commonly referred to as COVID-19, nearly a dozen county public health departments across Read More

• posted: Mar. 19, 2020
• Tod C. Gurney
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law

Families First Coronavirus Response Act – What We Know (So Far) On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), which will go into effect Read More

• posted: Mar. 16, 2020
• Andrea Nocito
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law

California Employer Guidelines on COVID-19 Part II: What should business owners do now? As a California employer, you likely have questions about how best to respond to COVID-19, how to continue Read More

• posted: Mar. 15, 2020
• leslieburkhammer
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law

California Employer Guidelines on COVID-19 Part 1 This is the first of two blogs that we wanted to share with our clients and friends of the firm to help with the Read More

• posted: Oct. 18, 2019
• leslieburkhammer
• Contractor vs Employee,  Contract Workers
• California Labor Code,  Independent Contractors,  Dynamex,  AB-5,  ABC test,  Borello test

On September 18, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 5 (“AB-5”). AB-5 codifies the ABC test set forth by the California Supreme Court’s decision in Dynamex Read More

• posted: Oct. 04, 2019
• Andrea Nocito
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law,  Employee Rights,  Employee Privacy
• California Consumer Protection Act,  California privacy rights,  consumer rights,  employee privacy,  security breach

Teaser: The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) becomes effective January 1, 2020. Failure to comply with this Act risks regulatory and private action including fines of $2,500 per violation. The Read More

• posted: Jul. 31, 2019
• Andrea Nocito
• Real Estate
• commercial real estate,  commercial lease,  landlord-tenant law,  landlord liability,  real estate negotiations

Stop! Do not Pass Go and collect $200. Many commercial tenants think the negotiation phase is complete once they have settled on a rent price and a term with their Read More