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  • All Employees are now Required 3 Paid Sick Days

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    After July 1, 2015, all Employers are Required to Pay 3 Days of Sick Leave On or after July 1, 2015, any employee (full-time, part-time and temporary) is entitled to three days of paid sick ...

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  • G&A Successfully Defends a Young Man’s Right to Become a Peace Officer in California

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    In a very satisfying ruling by the State Personnel Board, G&A Senior Labor and Employment Law attorney Richard P. Fisher was able to help keep alive our client’s dream of becoming a peace officer. As ...

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  • Families sue Cal Fire for death benefits

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    By: NEWS10 ABC Sacramento 12:42 a.m. PDT August 11, 2015 Video at the link: https://www.news10.net/story/news/local/california/2015/08/11/families-sue-cal-fire--death-benefits/31448457/ Pilots take to the air and provide aerial support for raging wildfires, putting their lives on the line every time they go ...

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  • CAL FIRE EXECS HIDE MANDATORY SURVIVORS BENEFIT FROM 14 FIREFIGHTER PILOT’S FAMILIES

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2015 CONTACT: Paul Q. Goyette, President and CEO, Goyette & Associates, Inc. (916) 851-1900 [email protected] CAL FIRE EXECS HIDE MANDATORY SURVIVORS BENEFIT FROM 14 FIREFIGHTER PILOT’S FAMILIES Sacramento, CA – For ...

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  • Collective Bargaining Update – Watch For Increasing Public Access to Contract Negotiations

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    Nationwide there is a growing movement in open labor negotiations to the public so they can observe and see exactly how the local Government entity is spending the local tax payer dollar.  While this may ...

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  • California Employment Law: Overtime

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    As an employer, it is important to pay overtime to your eligible employees at the correct rate and at the proper time when overtime hours are worked in order to reduce your liabilities and avoid ...

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  • US Supreme Court ruling clarifies retirement health-care benefit question in M&G Polymers v Tackett

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    The US Supreme Court recently made a decision that may have a significant impact on the obligation of employers to pay retirement health care benefits under collective bargaining agreements. While underfunded public employee pensions capture most of ...

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  • State Prison Business Manager Acquitted On All Felony Workers Compensation Fraud Charges

    Categories: Criminal Defense, Labor & Employment

    California Medical Facility (CMF), Correctional Business Manager, Collette Preszler-Riley was found not guilty of all felony workers' Compensation fraud charges by a Solano County Jury on January 21st, 2015. Ms. Preszler-Riley’s lead trial counsel was ...

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  • U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES THAT EMPLOYERS DO NOT HAVE TO PAY EMPLOYEES FOR POST-SHIFT SECURITY SEARCH WAITING TIME

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    As a follow up to the post on our Blog in early October, which described the U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral argument on a case involving whether the employer had to pay employees for post-shift ...

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  • Does the 'Volunteer Firefighter' Still Exist?

    Categories: Labor & Employment

    A very informative article recently published in the New York Times and summarizing the variety of issues surrounding the decline in the number of ‘volunteer firefighters’ can be accessed HERE.  One critical issue is only ...

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