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JACKIE
Dear Chet:
Please excuse my delay in writing to you. I can’t tell you how impressed we were and are with you and the things you stand for. It’s a refreshing feeling listening to you and understanding what a real man stands for. In all my travels you are the only person in public life that I inquired about that received nothing but praise. I hope that whatever your ambitions are, they will be fulfilled.
CAUTIONARY TALE EPISODE 102
HOLD-UP HAMMMERED
Construction Sites Labor Code Violations Earn $2.3 Million in Citations
The Labor Commissioner has cited eight companies and three individuals $2.1 million in unpaid wages and damages and $165,000 interest for labor law violations on four Los Angeles construction projects.
CAUTIONARY TALE EPISODE 101
SAFETY OVER PROFITS
A Cal/OSHA inquiry of two California Ranch Foods worker deaths in 2020 found exposure to a hazardous release of fatal nitrogen gas the cause. In settling the LA District Attorney’s ensuing criminal charges for lax training and safety procedures, the company must:
EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
The first day’s hike is finished on this Nepalese Monday. It is about 5:30 and the late-day sun dries out my sweat-laden body. A young child cries up the “road.” It’s a one-trail village perched on a ridge.
Residents sit across the way in the “Tourist Hotel” drinking tea and downing rice with their right hands. Chickens strut everywhere, pecking at your spit and anything else worth eating.
AUTOMATIC BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
Artificial intelligence defines itself as “the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think, learn, and solve problems like humans, enabling them to perform tasks that typically require human reasoning, such as understanding language, recognizing patterns, and making decisions.”
CAUTIONARY TALE EPISODE 100
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION LESSON
During the last two years, Columbia University has been regularly in the news for on-campus antisemitic protests. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission responded with charges to investigate any resulting civil rights abuses against the institution’s Jewish employees.
DEFEND YOUR BRAND
Trademark Assistance Can Help
A company’s trademarks may well be its most valuable assets. A business must guard against those who may seek to profit on the goodwill of those brands, whether intentionally or not.
Brand protection begins with selecting a strong trademark that no one else is already using for the same or similar products or services. Then registering that mark helps the owner to shield against unauthorized use.
LUNCH TIME-TRACKING
Preventing a Recordkeeping
Business-Buster
California requires employers to maintain accurate time records reflecting all hours worked, including start and end times of meal periods. Labor Code § 1174(d).
SEND AWAY PAY
Mastering “Reporting Time Pay” Compliance
California employers must provide additional “reporting time pay” to non-exempt (hourly) employees who report for scheduled work but then are given less than half of their shift. The amount is at least two hours’ and no more than four hours’ pay at the regular rate. For a second reporting on the same workday, the employer must pay at least two additional hours at the regular rate.
BOUNDARIES 101
California’s Anti-Discrimination Legislation
California and federal labor laws are designed to protect employees from unlawful discrimination. California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), signed into law in 1980 by then-Governor Jerry Brown, is the principal anti-discrimination law in California today.