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One of the most important employment law Supreme Court decisions in years has come down recently in the landmark case, Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis 584 U. S. ____ (2018). A sharply divided Court held that employers may require employees, as a condition of employment, to enter into arbitration agreements that contain class action or collective action waivers. The questions…
California’s New Independent Contractor Test: The “ABC” Test On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, addressing the test for determining whether an individual worker should properly be classified as an employee or, instead, as an independent contractor. The decision stands out significantly for its extreme importance…
Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision in the case of Rizo v. Yovino, No. 16-15372 (9th Circ. Apr. 9, 2018) addressing the question of whether an employer may use an employee’s prior salary history to justify gender pay disparity under the federal Equal Pay Act. In short, the Court’s answer was, no! Aileen Rizo…