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New California Employment Laws 2025 – Part Three
It is already December, and 2025 is just around the corner! The Tressler Labor and Employment Group would like to remind all employers of the changes in law coming into effect on January 1, 2025. This post will be the last of three reminder blog […]
New California Employment Laws 2025 – Part Two
It is already December, and 2025 is just around the corner! Paid Family Leave Effective January 1, 2025, an employee need not exhaust unused vacation time prior to taking paid family leave for disabilities commencing on or after January 1, 2025. The paid family leave […]
New California Employment Laws 2025 – Part One
It is already December, and 2025 is just around the corner! The Tressler Labor and Employment Group would like to remind all employers of the changes in law coming into effect on January 1, 2025. This post will be the first of three reminder blog […]
California Supreme Court Gives California App-Based Drivers Clarity Over Wage and Labor Policies
Yesterday, the nearly four-year legal battle to determine the classification of California gig workers came to a close. The California Supreme Court, in Hector Castellanos, et.al. v. State of California, et.al., unanimously upheld the California Court of Appeals, First Appellate District’s ruling that Prop. 22 […]
Attorney Spotlights
Bicvan Brown is a partner and Chair of Tressler’s Employment Group as well as Chair of the firm’s national Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Bicvan focuses her practice in all aspects of employment matters, including employment trials, arbitrations and mediations. She defends employers while providing advice and counsel against claims such as wage and hour (individual and class actions), PAGA, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and whistleblowing. She defends employers before state and federal agencies such as the EEOC, NLRB, California Labor Commission and California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. She is fluent in Vietnamese and Spanish and she provides advice about as well as translates workplace policies, employee handbooks and agreements. She regularly speaks at seminars with the purpose of helping employers and their insurers regarding best practices to minimize risk in California.
Karl Schlecht is a partner in Tressler’s Professional Liability and Employment Group in the Orange County office. He provides management-side labor and employment litigation defense before federal and state courts in class actions, single-plaintiff litigation and administrative agency proceedings involving the Fair Labor Standards Act, the ADA, Title VII, the ADEA and OSHA. His practice also includes a variety of other federal, state and local wage and hour, discrimination, breach of contract, wrongful discharge, labor and workplace tort claims.