Represented by Altshuler Berzon LLP, four McDonald’s workers and one worker’s minor child filed a lawsuit today in Alameda County Superior Court seeking injunctive and other relief against the owners and management of an Oakland McDonald’s restaurant, alleging that inadequate health and safety precautions have led to a major COVID-19 outbreak among workers, their families, […]
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). Additionally, Altshuler Berzon LLP congratulates them on accepting the […]
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 […]