by Harvey Sohnen Esq. | Dec 17, 2012 | Employment Law
California has a new commission contract law, California Labor Code Section 2751, which takes effect January 1, 2013. Under this law, employers who compensate employees with commissions are required to enter into a written commission contract with the employee. The...
by Harvey Sohnen Esq. | Aug 16, 2012 | Employment Law
Was California’s Brinker case a win for employees or employers? Following the long awaited unanimous decision of the California Supreme Court in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court, on April 12, 2012, both employee-side and employer-side advocates immediately...
by Harvey Sohnen Esq. | Apr 13, 2012 | Employment Law
UPDATE: There has been a significant development about the NLRB’s union rights poster. The poster requirement rule has been challenged in lawsuits by the National Association of Manufacturers and others. So far there have been mixed results in these lawsuits, On...
by Harvey Sohnen Esq. | Jan 20, 2012 | Employment Law, Publications
2012 arrives with a new legal requirement that employers need to become immediately familiar with. California Wage Theft Prevention Act (AB 469) This is a result of California’s Wage Theft Prevention Act (AB 469), effective January 1, 2012. The law covers a large...
by Harvey Sohnen Esq. | Jan 8, 2012 | Employment Law, Publications
Contra Costa Lawyer, May, 2002 By Harvey Sohnen, Esq. and Patricia M. Kelly, Esq. Recently, there has been new vigor in employees’ assertion of longstanding rights to overtime compensation in California. Last July’s Alameda County jury verdict of $90 million in Bell...
by Harvey Sohnen Esq. | Dec 18, 2011 | Employment Law, Publications
Contra Costa Lawyer, December, 2003 In the opening section of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”), Congress recognized that some “43,000,000 Americans have one or more physical or mental disabilities.”This group is protected from employment...
