Tony Oncidi

Mar 21, 2024 | lexology.com | Tony Oncidi

Terminating Sanctions Entered Against Employee Who Deleted Relevant Text MessagesJones v. Riot Hospitality Group LLC, 2024 WL 927669 (9th Cir. 2024)Alyssa Jones, a former waitress at a Scottsdale, Arizona bar, sued the owner of the bar and his company (Riot) for violations of Title VII and common law tort claims. After two of Jones’ coworkers testified in their depositions that they had exchanged text messages with Jones about the case, the district court ordered Jones to produce the text messages.

Mar 15, 2024 | lexblog.com | Tony Oncidi |Dixie Morrison

Anthony J. Oncidi is the co-chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Feb 20, 2024 | calemploymentlawupdate.proskauer.com | Tony Oncidi |Dixie Morrison

Anthony J. Oncidi is the co-chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Feb 20, 2024 | lexology.com | Tony Oncidi |Dixie Morrison

California’s minimum wage is already one of the highest in the nation at $16 per hour (although Sacramento’s efforts pale in comparison to those of cities and towns across the Golden State, which have created a patchwork quilt of over 40 different minimum wage obligations up and down the state). Now, as we have previously reported here, the rate is set to increase by another 25 percent to a whopping $20 per hour for fast food employees on April 1, 2024—April Fools! … except not.

Feb 20, 2024 | lexology.com | Tony Oncidi |Dixie Morrison

All eyes will be on the United States this November as Americans head to the polls in the upcoming 2024 general election. Likely to go somewhat less noticed among the Presidential, Senate, and House races this year is a California ballot initiative that would repeal (after 20 long years!) the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004—better known as PAGA.