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Northern Calif. Boutique Joins Burke Williams
Southern California's Burke, Williams & Sorensen has gained a foothold in Northern California by snapping up public sector labor and employment boutique Kay & Stevens. The combination gives 55-attorney Burke Williams an entry point into Silicon Valley and augments its growing labor and employment group, which has about doubled in the past five years to 17 lawyers. Kay & Stevens co-founding partner William Kay says his firm needed to find a larger law firm because it'd been turning away business.Wage Disputes Over Donning Gear Fuel Suits
In lawsuits filed across the nation, employees from auto workers to poultry workers are suing to be paid for the time it takes to get ready for work. Many of the lawsuits are fallout from a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case involving poultry and meatpacking workers in which the high court ruled that employees should be paid for the time it takes to "don and doff" mandatory uniforms or equipment. And one of the biggest groups of employees bringing these lawsuits is police officers.Wage Disputes Over Donning Gear Fuel Suits
It�s come to this: The process of getting ready for work is being litigated.9th Circuit Mulls Religious Banners and the First Amendment
If you were a high school teacher, what posters and inspirational items would you put up in your classroom? What if at your school, "no posters" was not an option, and you were expected to make some personal statement to your students and peers? The next question you may have to ask is: What are the limits your employer can place on what you say? What rights does the administration itself have in this scenario?In Flu Season, Employment Lawyers Catch Questions
As the H1N1 virus continues to spread nationally, employment lawyers are getting a lot of calls from clients. Littler Mendelson has received "thousands" of inquiries on the topic, said San Francisco partner Garry Mathiason. Primarily, the questions coming in are about how to maintain a safe workplace without stepping on the rights of apparently sick employees. One hot-button issue, then, is how to combat so-called "presenteeism," or ill employees coming to work.In The Trenches: Ogletree gains PoGo's immigration team
Immigration attorney Rebecca L. Sigmund has joined labor and employment boutique Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak Stewart from Powell Goldstein as a shareholder, bringing her immigration team with her.Sigmund, who had been the only immigration partner at Powell Goldstein, said the labor and employment boutique offers "a platform more supportive to immigration work" than a general practice firm.Trending Stories
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