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2 months ago | 
natlawreview.com | Michael S. Kun
Skip to main content January 30, 2025 Volume XV, Number 30 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Michael S. Kun
The Serrano/Ducksworth defense. If you know what I’m referring to, you don’t need to read any further. But if you don’t, well, please read on. A great many employment lawsuits include claims against alleged “joint employers” – for instance, a temporary staffing company and the client to which the employee was assigned, or related corporate entities that share similar names (and, perhaps, shared services, which is another issue).
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael S. Kun
Skip to main content January 06, 2025 Volume XV, Number 6 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Michael S. Kun
Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana (2022) U.S. 639 and the California Supreme Court’s decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc. (2023) 14 Cal. 5th 1104, when faced with employee arbitration agreements, California trial courts have regularly compelled plaintiffs to arbitrate their individual Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) claims first, while staying their representative, non-individual PAGA claims.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael S. Kun
On Election Day 2024, voters in six states weighed in on ballot initiatives that addressed several employment law topics. Among these were propositions to change state minimum wages and mandate paid sick leave for workers. The outcomes were mixed. In Alaska, voters passed by a narrow margin Ballot Measure 1, which will increase the state’s minimum wage from the current rate of $11.73 per hour to $13.00 per hour on July 1, 2025.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Michael S. Kun
Much has been made about the recent, hurried legislation to amend the Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) in order to take the Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act (“FPEAA”) off the California ballot this November. If passed by California voters, the FPEAA would have repealed PAGA and replaced it with a new statute and a new process that were more employer-friendly -- and more employee friendly.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Richard Newman |Michael S. Kun |Kathryn Rattigan |Sean Griffin
On July 10, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin granted plaintiffs’ Motion for Final Approval of a $12.2 million proposed settlement by Advocate Aurora Health to settle allegations against the 27-hospital system that it disclosed personal information of more than 2.5 million people to Meta and Google without consent.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Michael S. Kun
Much has been made about the recent, hurried legislation to amend the Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) in order to take the Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act (“FPEAA”) off the California ballot this November. If passed by California voters, the FPEAA would have repealed PAGA and replaced it with a new statute and a new process that were more employer-friendly -- and more employee friendly.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
wagehourblog.com | Michael S. Kun
Much has been made about the recent, hurried legislation to amend the Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) in order to take the Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act (“FPEAA”) off the California ballot this November.
If passed by California voters, the FPEAA would have repealed PAGA and replaced it with a new statute and a new process that were more employer-friendly -- and more employee friendly.
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May 20, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Michael S. Kun
As we have previously addressed, the U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its final rule raising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) effective January 1, 2025. While there are legal challenges to the final rule, the DOL is offering webinars about the final rule to employers on May 30, 2024 and June 3, 2024. Those webinars could certainly provide employers with valuable insights into the DOL’s approach.
