Bay Area Employment Lawyer BlogThe tension between an employee’s simple right to receive his wages for work he performed and the U.S. Supreme Court’s favoritism towards employers, is almost palpable in the tortured history of Sonic-Calabasas A, Inc. v. Moreno (Sonic II) ___ Ca.4th ___ (Oct. 17, 2013). Here the employer imposed an arbitration agreement upon Mr. Moreno. When […]
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Right to Administrative (Berman) Hearing before the Labor Commissioner under Attack in Light of Concepcion: Employee’s Right to Jury Trial in the Cross Hairs of the US Supreme Court
The conservative US Supreme Court’s activist agenda is in full throttle in the mandatory arbitration arena. In the AT&T v. Concepcion case (see prior blog of July 6, 2011), the US Supreme Court planted its thumb squarely on the employer’s side of the scales of justice by overturning past law and holding that there is […]