No Wage-Hour Class Action Where Employees Can Edit Their Own Time Entries?

As many California employers know all too well, wage and hour class actions are on the rise. A quick Google search of any combination of the words “California”, “wage and hour” and “class actions” results in thousands of results, a number of them actual cases involving disgruntled employees seeking millions of dollars from their employers.…

Class Waivers Must Be Arbitrated Individually

The Ninth Circuit recently found unenforceable a class (or “collective”) action waiver requiring employees to arbitrate their claims individually. In other words, requiring class action waivers as a condition of hire or continued employment violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRA applies to both unionized and many private, non-unionized workforces and protects covered…

Roxborough Comments in Workers’ Comp Executive Article About New Oder Barring Applied Underwriters’ EquityComp Program

Workers’ Comp Executive recently reached out to Nicholas Roxborough to comment on the new cease and desist order signed by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, barring Applied Underwriters from selling its EquityComp program in California. Roxborough told Workers’ Comp Executive that, “the Order provides additional evidence that Applied has engaged in wrongdoing. It provides exquisite foundational evidence for existing lawsuits,…