News & Updates

Chipotle, whose burrito restaurants have spread over the country over the past 20 years, has faced a number of challenges and questions over its products and workplace procedures as of late. While there have been many headlines over the past several years relating to numerous food safety issues at the restaurant, the chain has also…

On June 30, 2016, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced a historic change in policy for the U.S. military. Going forward, there will no longer be a ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the armed forces. The end of the ban now places gender identity on par with race, color, religion, sex, and sexual orientation…

Everyone knows that sexual harassment is illegal. With the recent scandal coming out of UC Berkeley, the persistent problem of sexual harassment is once again on everyone’s radar. Yet many people aren’t sure of what exactly constitutes actionable sexual harassment. By definition, sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance, request for sexual favors, or other…

Three recent allegations by students against an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley are only the latest in a series of scandals involving sexual harassment at the university over the past several years. All told, at least 141 allegations of sexual harassment against UC Berkeley faculty alone in the years between 2012 and 2015, prompted one…

We all know that sexual harassment at the workplace is, by definition, illegal. But it is also the case that there is nothing inherently wrong with romances developing between co-workers. In fact, one survey found nearly one out of five couples meet through work, and even our current president met his wife when he was…

Join us at the 2016 Labor and Employment Law Symposium in Orange, CA on Saturday, June 11, 2016. Hiedi DeGroot, Partner, and Nicole Nguyen, litigator, from our firm, will be speaking at the event, discussing how to deal with violence in the workplace. You can see a full schedule below. Register online at ocbar.org Registration:…