Just another day in paradise in Los Angeles… Unless you happen to be an employer. Continuing the recent spate of multi-million dollar verdicts, an LA jury awarded a former police officer $7 million on her sex discrimination claim.

Jorge Fierro filed this class action, claiming that he and the other members of the putative class were misclassified as exempt employees and that, in fact, they were non-exempt ...

The trial court denied plaintiffs' motion for class certification of a putative class consisting of employees who worked as drivers transporting milk within California.

David Moorer, who worked as a full-time security guard and "lobby ambassador" for Noble, filed a complaint as an individual and on behalf of all aggrieved employees ...

Sharmalene Goonewardene alleged claims against ADP (the payroll company used by her employer, Altour International Inc.) ...

Anthony Stratton filed a claim against Thomas Beck with the labor commissioner for unpaid wages in the amount of $303.55.

The Washington state fruit growers in this case experienced labor shortages and as a result entered into agreements with Global Horizons (a labor contractor) ...

While applying for employment with CheckSmart Financial, LLC, Desiree Gilberg signed a "Disclosure Regarding Background Investigation," which resulted in Gilberg's filing a putative class action against CheckSmart...

Says Siri alleged she was terminated as the general ledger staff accountant for Sutter Home Winery in retaliation for having notified the state Board of Equalization and Sutter's general counsel in writing...

After 41 years, singer/songwriter "Eddie Money" terminated the employment of Glenn Symmonds in response to which Symmonds filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination based on age, disability and medical condition...

Terry Furry worked as a sales and marketing director for the East Bay Express (a weekly newspaper based in Oakland) and alleged that East Bay failed to pay minimum and overtime wages ...

Nichelle Duffey sued Tender Heart Home Care Agency for employment-related wage and hour claims such as unpaid overtime under the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights ...

There they go again! As we predicted last November, the California legislature is once again trying to outlaw arbitration agreements between employers and employees

Skylar Ward challenged by way of this putative class action the on-call scheduling practices of her former employer, Tilly's, Inc., as violating the reporting time pay requirements of California law.

The #MeToo + #TimesUp movements have sparked an undeniably important conversation.