Blogs By: Scott Shibayama, Esq.

In matters of employment law, employers can make serious mistakes during the hiring process, during the employment, and when an employee is terminated. Many of these problems can be avoided through the development and implementation of sound employment policies and procedures, ongoing legal consultation, and…Read More

In law school budding lawyers learn a buzz phrase – “oh, that’s hornbook law” (aka “black letter law”). A “hornbook” is like “Cliff’s Notes” for law students and states the most rudimentary and basic recitation of the law so even a novice law student can…Read More

Leave Of Absence And Time Off In our attorneys’ experience, leave of absence and time off is an often misunderstood area of employment and labor law for employers. Combined with other potential issues, such as the need for time off as a reasonable accommodation for…Read More

Employment contracts are an exception to the assumption that all employment is “at-will” employment. “At-will employment means the employer or employee may terminate the employment relationship at any time with or without notice and with or without “cause.” Generally speaking the employment relationship under California…Read More

California courts have stated the employment relationship in California is “primarily contractual.” This a misnomer because the employer and employee relationship is a special legal relationship that is framed by a mixture of statutory, contract, tort and criminal law. Even the foregoing phrase “primarily contractual”…Read More

The content of this email/post is as of 3:03 pm, Sunday March 29, 2020. HR 6201 Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was enacted Wednesday, March 18, 2020. FFCRA directed the Secretary of Labor (Department of Labor (DOL)) to issue regulations regarding it. The DOL…Read More

All Employers – the federal government has passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) which directly impacts all employers with up to 500 employees. This is the first federal law passed to provide some relief to employees.  FFCRA contains several major provisions, three of…Read More