Labor
and Employment Law Newsletter January 2008
Murphy Austin Adams
Schoenfeld, LLP’s Labor and Employment Group want to wish all
of our clients a Happy New Year. We hope that this year will be successful
in all of your endeavors. As always, we want you to maintain healthy
and positive working relationships with your past, present and future
employees.
In years past, MAAS
has hosted a morning seminar to keep all of our clients up to date with
the yearly legislative and judicial pronouncements that have changed
the way employers interact with their employees. Fortunately, 2007 was
a relatively quiet year for employment law related changes. We decided
to spread the information that you need to know for 2007 and beyond
through the electronic medium. This is the first of our newsletters
that we will send to you on a quarterly basis. The newsletters will
provide you with current developments and tips to help you stay in compliance
with the law and, hopefully, out of a judicial forum. We hope that you
find these newsletters useful and informative. Of course, if you would
prefer not to receive the newsletter or, at any time, wish to stop receiving
the newsletters, simply notify us.
MAAS’s first
newsletter for 2008 offers three tips to the employer to assist it in
staying out of court. The first
tip is to ensure that you are in full compliance with all of the
new legislation that the California Legislature passed and Governor
Schwarzenegger signed. One section of this newsletter is devoted to
identifying the new laws that implicate the employer/employee relationship.
The second
tip is to understand and ensure that you are in full compliance
with the judicial authority that was decided last year. One section
of this newsletter identifies and explains some of the more important
decisions that were rendered in 2007. The last
tip focuses on one of the hottest areas of litigation – wage
and hour issues. In this section, we identify the areas of the wage
and hour laws that are most ripe for litigation.
Again, everyone
at MAAS wishes the best for you, your employees and your business in
2008.