February 02nd, 2017/By Admin/In Blog, SBSBLOG
Topics for this Month include:
– City of Los Angeles’ “Ban the Box” Ordinance
– Ruling on DOL Overtime Regulations Fast Tracked
– Recordkeeping requirements for OSHA Workplace Injury Records
– EEOC’s Proposed Harassment Enforcement Guidance
– Requirements for Providing Rest Breaks Clarified by California Supreme Court
– U.S. Supreme Court to Review (Again) Class Action Waivers
– FCRA Disclosure Notice Cannot Include Liability Waiver
LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY UPDATE
The City of Los Angeles “Bans the Box”
Effective January 1, 2017, most employers with more than ten (10) employees who work, on average, at least two hours per week within the City of Los Angeles limits, and LA City contractors, are prohibited from including on their job applications a “box” inquiring about a job applicant’s criminal history. Read More
February 01st, 2017/By Admin/In Blog
Firm Partner Robert M. Freedman is pleased to provide you with his comments concerning a litigation strategy used by many in the plaintiffs’ bar. For those who have dealt with this tactic, it is a lesson learned. For those who have not yet faced it, we hope this information will allow you to identify and deal with it early. Please click here for the full article: Reptile Litigation.
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January 03rd, 2017/By Admin/In Firm Events
Tharpe & Howell, LLP will be an exhibitor at the Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) 2017 Legal Update Conferences to be held on January 10, 2017 (Riverside Convention), January 12, 2017 (Universal Sheraton Hotel), and on January 17, 2017 (Anaheim Marriott). Over 1,000 human resources professionals and business owners attend the annual Legal Update series, which highlight 2017 changes in California and federal laws. If you will be at the conference, please stop by our table to say hello to members of our Firm’s employment litigation team. Read More
We are pleased to announce that Tharpe & Howell’s Managing Partner Stephanie Forman has been named by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal as one of the Valley’s 200 most influential leaders of 2016. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Firm, Ms. Forman actively represents clients throughout California, primarily in the areas of employment and labor law, premises liability, product liability, wrongful death, and mass tort. Ms. Forman also has extensive experience in counseling companies on administrative and compliance matters. Read More
The Firm is pleased to report an article previously published by Firm attorney Eric Kunkel entitled “The Spanish Law of Waters in the United States: From Alfonso the Wise to the Present Day,” 32 McGeorge L. Rev. 341 (2001), has been cited by the Witkin treatise at 12 Witkin, Summary of California Law, Real Property, § 918 (10th Ed. 2005). The treatise cites the article as authority addressing the “creation, extension and modification” of the “pueblo water rights doctrine” in California. Read More
