California Caregivers Take Legal against Their Employer for Wage Violations
On June 18, 2014 in California, trained caregivers filed a class action claim on behalf of many employees all over the state. They stated their employer, Kindred Healthcare and its partners, cheated them on earnings, overtime, and breaks. Ginger Rogers, a caregiver for twenty-five years, stated that Kindred Healthcare employed her in 2012 to take […]
Court Says Employers Not Required to Make Certain Employees Go to Lunch
On April 12, 2012, The California Supreme Court decided that employers were not required to make certain employees take lawfully authorized lunch breaks in a case that had an effect on many companies and employees. The undisputed judgment arrived following the employees’ lawyer claiming that abuses were usual and common when corporations were not demanded […]
Judge Sets Asides False Advertising Lawsuit against Alki David in Michael Jackson Lawsuit
On September 17, 2014, billionaire and FilmOn founder Alki David achieved legal triumph when he persuaded a California federal judge to decline a false advertising claim that was relevant to what he stated throughout a CNN interview. This was the partial result of a fight over who owned rights to revive dead artists such as […]
Kohl’s Suffers Defeat in California False-Advertising Complaint
In May 2013, a federal California appeals court had re-established a false-advertising claim filed on Kohl’s Corporation. The action once to more permits a Los Angeles-area man and his attorney engage in a possible class-action claim that Kohl’s misleadingly represented products as being retailed at huge markdowns from the initial prices. In the continuing California […]
What is Securities Fraud?
Securities are any investment form, such as stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. A stock, for example, represents a piece of ownership in a company. As a partial owner, the stockholder is entitled to any profits derived from the company, i.e. dividends. Those profits are based on a percentage of the total company owned. These securities […]
California’s “Cool-Down” Periods and Avoid the Burn of Wage and Hour Class Litigation
Just when one might have thought California employment law couldn’t get any stickier for employers, in January 2014 the California Legislature turned up the heat by expanding meal and rest break penalty provisions. Now there’s a new penalty for failure to provide “cool-down,” or recovery, periods to prevent heat illness. Before, heat illness prevention […]
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