Artificial intelligence has quietly become part of how work gets done. Employees are using it to draft emails, summarize documents, build spreadsheets, and answer customer questions — often without anyone in management deciding that should happen. For employers, the question
California employers face one of the most complex and actively enforced wage-and-hour landscapes in the country, and most of that complexity gets triggered the moment a schedule is built. Daily overtime, meal and rest break timing, premium pay obligations, split
California employers face constant pressure to make personnel decisions quickly. Terminations, separations, performance issues, and new hires often cannot wait for a lawyer’s calendar. The most effective way to handle these routine but high-risk situations is to have a core
July 1 is just around the corner, and with it comes another wave of local minimum wage increases across Southern California. For employers operating in multiple jurisdictions—particularly those with hotel, hospitality, or healthcare workers—the compliance landscape continues to grow more
Mandatory fees added to customer checks have become one of the more aggressively litigated areas in California consumer and employment law. Restaurants are the most visible target, but the issue reaches any California business that adds a line-item charge to
On April 1, 2026, the Ninth Circuit handed California employers a meaningful win in O’Dell v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc., No. 25-1528. The court reversed a Southern District of California ruling that had used a procedural doctrine—non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel—to
Five AI Strategies California Employers Should Be Executing Right Now
AI is not coming to your workplace. It is already there. Your employees are using it — on personal accounts, on free tools, and in ways your current policies almost
Posting a job opening sounds straightforward — but in California, it comes with a growing list of legal requirements that many employers overlook. From pay scale disclosures to salary history prohibitions, the rules around job postings have evolved significantly in
If you are a California employer, there is a major unresolved issue in PAGA litigation that could significantly impact your exposure—and your ability to enforce your arbitration agreements.
It is called a “headless” PAGA claim, and right now, California courts
For decades, the law firm business model operated on a familiar premise: a broad base of junior lawyers, a small group of partners at the top, and clients footing the bill for hours billed at every level of the pyramid.
