Before 1967 that section had empowered the juvenile court to refer minors 16 years old or over to a court for trial under the appropriate criminal statute whenever the court considered the minor not to be amenable to rehabilitation through juvenile court facilities. The 1967 amendment added specific...
All jobs are important, but that does not mean that they will meet the very specific requirements included in the California duties test.Exempt work specifically includes, for example, all work that is directly and closely related to exempt work and work that is properly viewed as a means for...
But those categories do not account for different skills required between jobs in the same category for which the market dictates different compensation. The job categories also do not account for differences in an employee’s education, training or experience within the same job category, all ...
Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced Fong could not run for congress because California law does not allow candidates to appear on the same ballot twice for different jobs. The state also prohibits candidates from dropping out of a race after the filing deadline closes. The California Secret...
On Friday, March 12, 2021, the California Court of Appeal issued a ruling in Wilson v. The La Jolla Group that addresses the appropriate scope of class treatment for employee misclassification under Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court. Dynamex—and its later enactment into statute ...
a lawsuit soon became inevitable. This led to Judicial Watchfiling a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court in January challenging the GIFT program on behalf of three taxpayers. According to the suit, GIFT violated the Equal Protection clause of the California constitution by discriminating based on...
The Clean Energy, Jobs and Affordability Act of 2022 commits the state to running its operations on clean, renewable energy resources by 2035, and SB 1203 also requires the state to achieve net-zero operations for all agencies. Currently, several solar power plants such as the Solar Energy ...
Superior Court (1997) 16 Cal.4th 880, 889-890 [“[T]his court established a set of requirements that a policy must satisfy to support a tortious discharge claim. First, the policy must be supported by either constitutional or statutory provisions. Second, the policy must be ‘public’ in...
The California Superior Court agreed with the employee, while declining to make a judgment on other allegations that Google's agreements blocked whistleblowing and sharing information about wages with other workers. The ruling marks the latest victory for labour advocates who have sought to force Big...
Attempts at machine politics have proved ineffectual in California because of voter mobility, lack of party entrenchment, and the prime role of civil service in bestowing jobs. The vastness of the state and the political cleavages between the liberal north and the conservative south make it difficu...