CA Supreme Court rules nonresidents should be paid overtime

Last month, the California Supreme Court ruled against Oracle in a lawsuit involving overtime pay paid to nonresident workers.  With the ruling, the Supreme Court declares that all nonresident workers in California are entitled to overtime pay from businesses in the state. The ruling came out of a class-action overtime pay lawsuit filed against Oracle.…

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Target settles Orange County discrimination suit

Wednesday, Target Corp. settled a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit was filed in 2009 on behalf of a man who worked as a cart attendant at a Target store in Orange County.  According to the lawsuit, the company reduced the man’s hours after he returned from a period…

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State Senate passes language discrimination bill

Last month, members of the California Senate passed a bill to protect foreign language speakers and workers in the state from facing language or national origin discrimination in the workplace.  Senate Bill 111 would add language into the state’s civil rights law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, and make it illegal for employers to require…

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