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"It's an added nuance to the age-old question of where to file," said Christopher McNerney, who represents workers as a partner at Outten & Golden LLP. "Some of the considerations are: Where is the bulk of the company's business? What is convenient for your clients? What is the status of the law?"

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down workplaces and closed international borders, seemingly overnight in early 2020, many expatriate employees were suddenly thrown into crisis...

A recent Ninth Circuit opinion in a case against food delivery company Grubhub promises to complicate the legal landscape for app-based companies after the appellate court ruled California's Prop 22 does...

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"Wages are property under California law and your right to that property vests when you perform the work," - Adam Koshkin

Class action targets criminal history screening policies that reject qualified job applicants

Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, hires thousands of new workers across the U.S. each year. But according to a lawsuit recently filed by Outten & Golden LLP and Youth Represent, the retail giant also rejects many qualified applicants because of their criminal histories – part of a uniform hiring policy that disparately impacts Black and Latinx candidates in...

We can't celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday on one end of the spectrum and still have in our Constitution of the United States of America an exception that allows for slavery for people who have been convicted of crime," Williams told Law360 recently.

People incarcerated for criminal offenses who work in facilities' maintenance or in state correctional industries to make goods, like eyeglass lenses or license plates, are not constitutionally entitled to minimum wage. This arrangement is a vestige of the 13th Amendment's abolition of...

A job applicant to New York Life filed a class action alleging that the company denied employment to her because of arrests that never resulted in conviction. The complaint specifically alleges that New York Life's uniform policy and practice, to deny applicants with such arrests, "flout[s] New York law, treating individuals as guilty of crimes for which they were never convicted, and inverting the fundamental U.S. legal principle that an individual is innocent until proven guilty."

New York City and State make it an unlawful discriminatory practice to deny employment to an...