Time for Your Employees to Start Saving for Retirement? The Next CalSavers Retirement Savings Program Employer Registration Deadline is Coming Soon!
Does your private sector business have more than 50 employees? If so, California law requires your business to register with the CalSavers Retirement Savings Program (“CalSavers”) by June 30, 2021. The CalSavers registration is required for a covered employer to confirm that it either provides its employees access to a Continue Reading …
What’s That Ringing Sound? Court of Appeal Holds Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Can Constitute a “Physical Disability” Under FEHA
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (“EHS”), also known as microwave syndrome or being allergic to electricity, has been represented in pop culture and social media for several years.[i] One of the most prominent portrayals of EHS is in the TV show Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad, where successful Continue Reading …
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Second District Permits Trade Secret Protection for Physician Productivity Data
At the end of 2020, California’s Second District Court of Appeal decided Coast Hematology-Oncology Associates Medical Group, Inc. v. Long Beach Memorial Medical Center,[i] a case involving rival medical groups and allegations of trade secret misappropriation, interference with prospective economic advantage, interference with a contract, and unfair competition.
Whitewater West Industries, Ltd. v. Alleshouse: California Law Torpedoes Post-Employment Invention Assignment Provisions
California employers beware. You can use a properly drafted contract to prohibit former employees from using your confidential information after they leave your business. But, if your contract requires a former employee to hand over to you his or her good ideas related to your business conceived after leaving your Continue Reading …
CCPA Blog Series: Post No. 4 We Barely Got to Know You: How Prop 24 Changed the CCPA
In our first three posts on the CCPA, we discussed how its data privacy provisions might affect businesses and empower consumers, as well as the law’s implications on COVID-19 temperature checks. Although it has been a mere eleven months since the CCPA took effect, we already have a new law Continue Reading …
COVID-19 and the CCPA: The Privacy Implications of Temperature Checks
While the CCPA has been in effect for several months now, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to grapple with the law in a new light. In earlier posts, we provided a general overview of the new law and detailed the new consumer rights that it establishes. Companies Continue Reading …