Legal Protection For Workers
Due to strict HIPPA regulations, most California patients trust that their medical records are securely held and protected. However, unauthorized access to medical records has become easier in many instances due to the increased prevalence of electronic...
Educational institutions are typically considered positive places where learning, creativity and societal advances thrive. Most administrators and schools strive to keep their institutions ethically sound and hold their faculty and students to high standards of moral...
Last year, California passed one of the most progressive measures to create gender wage equality. As many employers are starting to implement this law, another law is currently being considered to add additional language that will protect workers from racial wage...
American businesses have long been behind the rest of the developed world in terms of policies that promote a healthy work/life balance and time off. In many other countries, mandated time off for new parents after the birth of a baby and time to care for ailing...
In one of the most populous and expensive states to live, many celebrate the deal struck recently between lawmakers and labor unions to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022. However, there remain many questions about how this decision will affect the economy...
Though illegal, workplace sexual harassment still occurs with alarming frequency in California and other states. Though it may seem insurmountable for one worker to face a giant corporation, many such lawsuits have been successfully litigated. A recent complaint...
A recent article in a leading newspaper reports that the dean of the number eight law school in the country has taken an indefinite leave of absence following a recent lawsuit. It is always abhorrent when those in power take advantage of their position, but...
A whistleblower lawsuit across the country from California has resulted in what is reportedly the largest verdict of its kind in North Carolina history. Jurors in a therapist’s wrongful termination lawsuit awarded her $3.6 million in damages. The plaintiff worked for...
According to a 2014 report released from the Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a little less than 70 percent of all female restaurant workers will be subjected to sexual harassment. A current case of sexual harassment against a group of women at P.F. Chang's has...
Being a part of making movies and television shows may be a dream of many California residents, but those who are doing the job feel much differently. A group of parking production assistants filed lawsuits against major studios, including Lionsgate, Sony...
