Three sales professionals at car dealerships in California could not bring wage and hour claims against Volkswagen under California law, a federal appeals court ruled. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/calif-volkswagen-not-deemed-joint-employer-of-car-dealership-workers.aspx

A Black female attorney could not be forced to arbitrate her workplace bias claims under an arbitration provision in the employer’s long-term cash bonus plan, a… https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/calif-employment-arbitration-pact-did-not-cover-bias-claims.aspx

A woman who was hired by staffing agencies to work at specialty events on the Costco premises was not a Costco employee, a federal appeals court ruled. The trial court,… https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/costco-not-joint-employer-of-woman-hired-by-staffing-agencies.aspx

A trial court erred when it ruled that newspaper home-delivery carriers were not employees of The Fresno Bee newspaper but rather were independent contractors and thus… https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/calif-court-reconsiders-whether-newspaper-carriers-are-contractors.aspx

An Asian-American engineer who worked for Stockton’s municipal utility department filed a lawsuit claiming that high-level city officials of the Mormon faith sought to recruit, hire and promote Mormon workers and that he was denied a promotion because he was not white or Mormon.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/YEG9xdtyeQM/calif-claim-that-city-preferred-mormon-job-applicants.aspx