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MoFo ELC equips our clients with the most up-to-date and relevant information on employment and labor law issues covering key judicial, litigation and legislative developments, their implications for employers, and strategies to ensure compliance and avoid lawsuits.

July 06, 2017 - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
When One Person's Scent Is Another Person's Disability
A California jury recently awarded a $3.3 million verdict to a California Department of Transportation (“CALTRANS”) employee who alleged a variety of disability-related claims involving CALTRANS’s failure to properly accommodate his allergy to certain scents and his supervisor’s and co-workers’ retaliatory actions in light
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June 05, 2017 - Legislation
“On The Seventh Day He (She) Rested” . . . Maybe
It took 124 years, but the California Supreme Court in Mendoza v. Nordstrom, Inc., No. S224611, 2017 WL 1833143 (Cal. May 8, 2017) finally addressed in detail California’s day-of-rest statutes (Labor Code Sections 551, et seq.) originally enacted in 1893. Such a seemingly simple
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May 06, 2017 - Legislation
San Jose Thinks It Knows The Way
The Economic Policy Institute has reported that, in 2016, as many as 4 million workers nationwide wanted but were unable to obtain full-time work. While some have debated these numbers, the City of San Jose, California, has attempted to tackle the issue with a
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April 06, 2017 - Immigration
The Don(ald) Of A New Era: Are Workplace Immigration Raids On The Horizon?
The Place: A car wash in Los Angeles The Time: The 1970s The Scene: A busy afternoon at the car wash. Immigration agents burst onto the property in search of undocumented workers. The cashier—wife of the manager— yells frantically into the public address mic,
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March 06, 2017 - Pay Equity
The Movement For Equal Pay In The Workplace: Progressive State Laws Carry The Torch
Although strides have been made over the past few decades to achieve pay equity for women and other protected classes of individuals, the facts (and the sentiment expressed in the above quote) make clear that there is still a ways to go. Indeed, new
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February 06, 2017 - Legislation
The Cost Of Keeping Things Quiet: Crackdown On Confidentiality Clauses Calls For Explicit Carve-Outs
In last February’s Employment Law Commentary , we discussed best practices for drafting separation agreements. Among the issues raised was a recent SEC enforcement action applying one of the Commission’s rules in a novel way to clamp down on contracts seen as chilling whistleblowing
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Welcome to the MoFo ELC Blog

When One Person's Scent Is Another Person's Disability

“On The Seventh Day He (She) Rested” . . . Maybe

San Jose Thinks It Knows The Way

The Don(ald) Of A New Era: Are Workplace Immigration Raids On The Horizon?

The Movement For Equal Pay In The Workplace: Progressive State Laws Carry The Torch

The Cost Of Keeping Things Quiet: Crackdown On Confidentiality Clauses Calls For Explicit Carve-Outs