Are BlackBerry/PDA lawsuits on the horizon? [Workplace Prof Blog]
Computer says, “yes.”
WageLaw: Another U.S. District Court rejects DLSE’s affirmative duty requirement regarding rest and meal periods.
I’m not sure why the District Courts aren’t following Cicairos. There needs to be some sort of compromise on this issue, ultimately. Is there a way that we can make sure employers provide breaks required by law without micromanaging employees’ routines?
Grad student bargaining rights embedded into law? [Workplace Prof Blog]
While I haven’t check this, it strikes me as quite likely that the judges who are not following Cicairos are GOP-nominated judges who have a generally pro-business disposition, and they don’t follow Cicairos for the sole reason that they don’t have to. It’s certainly not because they drew inferences from the California Supreme Court’s denial of review in Cicairos that would lead them to believe that the Supreme Court would have gone the other way if it had decided the issue.