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New California Laws for 2018, Part 2
This is the second of three parts describing new California laws governing employment. This blog will cover the ban on salary history, the New Parent Leave Act and an increase in state-provided benefits. Don’t ask about prior salary In a bid to close the gender pay...
New California Laws, Part 1
A number of new laws affecting employers and the workplace took effect on January 1, 2018. We’ll explain them in a trio of upcoming blogs, along with best practices to comply. The first New California law we'll address is AB 1008, the California Fair Chance Act. AB...
Time’s Up Hits a Home Run at Golden Globe Awards
The Times Up movement charged into the spotlight at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, as actors and actresses spoke up in opposition to sexual harassment and abuse. The movement was announced in a published a letter in The New York Times on New Year’s Day by more...
Avoid Office Party Pitfalls, Part 2
Second of a two-part series. This one focuses on employee pitfalls and acceptable behavior. Office holiday parties are meant to be fun. But it is still a business event, and there’s a certain etiquette required. Fail to keep that in mind, and you risk tarnishing your...
Avoid Office Party Pitfalls, Part 1
First of a two-part series on office parties. The first part will focus on employers, the second on employees. Holiday office parties can be fun, but employees and employers alike should beware of potential pitfalls that can ruin the festive atmosphere. Alcohol...
Are Confidentiality Clauses on the Way Out?
Accusations of sexual harassment against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein have eclipsed other news stories in recent days, coming in the wake of Fox News’ ouster of Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, also for sexual harassment. In the wake of the accusations, lawmakers and...
Employee Fired for ‘Perpetuating Gender Stereotypes’
On Monday we posted a blog exploring gender inequity in tech jobs in the Silicon Valley. On Tuesday, we learned that Google software engineer James Damore had created a new Silicon Valley firestorm with his 10-page internal memo. The 10-page memo, "Google's...
Is Silicon Valley Mistreating Women in Tech?
Silicon Valley has been taking a lot of heat in recent months for its treatment of women in technology. Gender discrimination is apparently so ingrained there that an Uber hiring manager had this to say to a prospective female employee whom the hiring manager – a...
Equal Pay Takes a Step Back in Trump White House
President Donald Trump is not exactly leading the charge for gender equality. An analysis by American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry reveals that the pay gap between male and female staffers in the White House – which had dropped to 11 percent during Obama’s last...
Why Bob Mueller is Justice’s Pick for Special Prosecutor
Bob Mueller, appointed as independent special prosecutor in the Justice Department investigation of potential ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, is being praised by both Democrats and Republicans as a relentless prosecutor and an...