Employment law

Another year, another mountain of important employment law – and our authors’ wisdom on how to use it

Norman Pine
Beverly Tillett Pine

From Issue: 2017 June

Easy as ABC!

Understanding who is an employee in the wake of Dynamex and AB 5

Jennifer Kramer

From Issue: 2020 February

Driven to exhaustion

Avoiding FEHA administrative potholes on the bumpy road to litigation

Gina Browne
Janette Lee

From Issue: 2019 May

Deflategate and the California workplace

A commonsense approach to workplace investigations involving personal cell phones

Kevin Pease
Nicholas Starkman

From Issue: 2017 September

Crossing the finish line to approval of your class-action settlement

Courts are increasingly scrutinizing settlements to ferret out potential conflicts and collusion

Adrianne De Castro

From Issue: 2021 May

California leave laws offer numerous protections

Employees in companies of 50 or more workers are entitled to many types of statutory leave, and even those in smaller firms (5 or more) are entitled to pregnancy leave

From Issue: 2019 March

Employers may be held liable for single-incident harassment claims – racial epithets made by non-supervisors

Examining Bailey in the broader context of employment-discrimination law

J. Bernard Alexander
Hayley Solarz

From Issue: 2025 February

E is for Equity: What women earn and why

Plaintiffs’ trial firms are some of the worst offenders of both the equal-pay laws and the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion

Micha Star Liberty

From Issue: 2024 March

Discovery aimed at defeating an arbitration clause in employment cases

Seeking pre-hearing discovery relating to a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration could make the difference in keeping your client’s claims in court

Erin M. Kelly

From Issue: 2023 October

Defamation in employment

Chris Whelan

From Issue: 2016 April

Communicating damages in sexual-harassment cases

Help the jury make an emotional connection to the harm and loss suffered by your client in a sexual-harassment case

Martin I. Aarons
Shannon H.P. Ward

From Issue: 2019 May

Beyond checkboxes

A strategic approach to intersectionality in employment law

Nicole Meyers

From Issue: 2025 June