Hunton Employment & Labor Prespective: Continued Employment Supports Consent To Arbitrate

Recently, the California Court of Appeals, Second District, in Diaz v. Sohnen Enterprises, 2019 S.O.S. 1722, ruled that an employee impliedly consents to an arbitration agreement by simply continuing to work, despite never signing the arbitration agreement and even outright rejecting it.

Prior to distributing arbitration agreements to its employees, Sohnen notified them that it was adopting a new dispute resolution policy requiring arbitration of all claims and specified that continued employment would constitute an […]

By | June 3rd, 2019 ||

Employment Law Essentials: 5 Lessons From May 2019

Gowling WLG’s experts bring you five significant employment law developments you should be aware of this month – what they are and how they might impact your business: Disability discrimination (reasonable adjustments and employer’s failure to follow its own stated policy), TUPE (on employer’s insolvency arrears of equal pay can be claimed from the NIF with liability for excess passing to transfer), Vicarious liability (employer not liable for injury at work’s party), Government resurrects […]

By | May 22nd, 2019 ||

D.C. Court Sets Deadline To Submit EEO-1 Employee Pay Data

The Situation: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has set September 30, 2019, as the deadline for certain employers to submit EEO-1 Component 2 pay data for 2017 and 2018. Between now and then, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) will be providing periodic updates to the court with additional information regarding the requirement.

The Result: The court’s ruling has been appealed, but the EEOC has stated that the appeal will have no […]

By | May 22nd, 2019 ||