Employees of a defense contractor at Beale Air Force Base who work the afternoon and midnight shifts will receive shift differential premium pay for all hours, including their paid time off, as a result of an arbitration decision issued May 22, 2020. Labor arbitrator John Caraway ruled for workers employed by InDyne Corp. who are […]
Altshuler Berzon LLP is pleased to welcome its 2020 Summer Associates: J. Colin Bradley (New York University School of Law), Cody Kahoe (Stanford Law School), Ariella Park (Stanford Law School), Derrick Rice (Yale Law School), Grace Rybak (Stanford Law School), and Emanuel Waddell (Yale Law School) The law firm typically hires four or five summer […]
Partner Michael Rubin was featured in a May 15 San Francisco Chronicle article summarizing how law firms in the Bay and around the country are responding to the Coronavirus crisis: “’My sense is that labor and employment practices, whether union-side or management, have plenty of clients in need of legal advice and representation,’ said Michael […]
Judgment for Oil and Gas Company Defendants Reversed: No Basis for Federal Jurisdiction In two sets of consolidated cases decided May 26, 2020, a Ninth Circuit panel held that California cities and counties represented by Altshuler Berzon LLP and Sher Edling LLP may continue to prosecute claims against several of the world’s largest privately owned […]
On Thursday May 21, 2020, Judge Stephen Wilson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted final approval to the $ 3.5 million settlement in the Fan v Delta Airlines, Inc. wage and hour class action. The case arose out of Delta’s calculation of overtime for its non-exempt ground employees ( […]
On May 11, 2020, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California granted in part a preliminary injunction requested by fishing and environmental groups represented by Altshuler Berzon LLP in PCFFA v. Ross, E.D. Cal. Case No. 1:20-cv-00431-DAD-EPG. The Court ruled that the Trump administration’s new water project operations in California’s Delta, which […]
On May 8, 2020, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Molina v. SEIU Local 668 granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants on all remaining claims in the lawsuit, concluding that the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S.Ct. 2448 (2018), does not apply […]
On April 29, 2020, the San Mateo County Superior Court certified a class of over 3,000 women employees of Oracle who contend that they were systematically underpaid by Oracle as compared to men in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act. The court rejected Oracle’s arguments that the work done by women and men in the […]
On April 15, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Wholean v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. affirmed the dismissal of claims against a union representing Connecticut state workers in which the plaintiffs sought to claw back fair-share fees the union had lawfully charged them before the Supreme Court reversed long-standing precedent and […]
On April 10, 2020 Altshuler Berzon LLP, together with co-counsel and with the financial support of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund™, filed a civil rights and employment discrimination class action lawsuit against McDonald’s Corporation on behalf of women workers who work at corporate owned and operated McDonald’s restaurants in Florida. The lawsuit accuses McDonald’s of […]