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Wage and Hour Insurance Coverage: Beyond What Your Employer Says October 5, 2011
Employers typically rely on Employment Practices Liability Insurance ("EPLI") policies for coverage against traditional employment-related claims, such as sexual harassment , discrimination and ...
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Mini-Skirt Mondays?! One Extreme Example of a Hostile Work Environment September 30, 2011
People know this is 2011, right? While an employer maintaining a dress code is certainly not unusual, one Utah Company took the idea of a dress code to an unhealthy and illegal extreme. Trudy ...
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School Fires Water Polo Coach For Being Openly Gay September 29, 2011
Charter Oak High School fired an openly gay water polo coach, Mitch Stein, after receiving an anonymous complaint about "inappropriate" photos of Stein pulled from his Facebook page. No, these weren't ...
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California's Unregistered Same-Sex Partners Remain Vulnerable to Unintended Disinheritance. September 29, 2011
As the song goes, "Love and marriage, love and marriage. Go together like a horse and carriage, …" In comparison, "Love and civil unions , ..." kind of falls flat. To many, next to marriage, a civil ...
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Independent Contractors and the FEHA: Is There Protection Available for Claims of Sexual Harassment? August 24, 2011
We recently helped a client who had begun working for a Los Angeles-area restaurant essentially as an independent contractor. She acted as a consultant to the restaurant for their menu; interior ...
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"I'm Gonna Get You Back!" What is Illegal Workplace Retaliation? June 30, 2011
A quick online dictionary search of the definition of "retaliate" reflects that it means "to take retributory action, especially by returning some injury or wrong in kind." We frequently receive calls ...
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