by Girish Anand | Apr 6, 2016 | State Labor Law
San Francisco has piggy-backed on an existing California law allowing parents to take six weeks of 55-percent paid leave for the birth of a child by mandating their employers pay the other 45 percent. Result: Continuation of regular pay for six weeks upon the birth of...
by Girish Anand | Feb 22, 2016 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
The Oregon legislature has passed a plan to raise the state minimum wage in a tiered structure that sees employees in Portland earning $14.75 an hour, those in Salem, Eugene and other smaller cities $13.50, and those in the hinterlands $12.50 — all by 2022. Gov....
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | State Labor Law
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ruled this week in a four-page opinion that Uber drivers are employees and not independent contractors. “Oregon’s worker protections are in place for a reason,” Avakian wrote in a statement. “When corporations misclassify an...
by admin | Sep 27, 2015 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
The International Franchise Association, suing on behalf of franchisees in Seattle, has once again been rebuffed in its legal battle over the city’s new minimum wage law. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this past week upheld the local U.S....
by admin | Sep 11, 2015 | State Labor Law
Ellen Pao, who sued Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination for not promoting her and then firing her for complaining, has officially given up. Pao lost her highly publicized case earlier this year and mulled an appeal. But now...
by admin | Aug 21, 2015 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
Voter-approved Proposition 1, which provides for a $15-an-hour minimum wage along with paid sick leave for hospitality and transportation workers in the Washington State community of SeaTac, has been revived by the state Supreme Court in a 5-to-4 vote. After voters...