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09.24.19

New Webinar: Keeping Medicaid’s Promise for Children With Special Healthcare Needs

Learn how to improve access, services and care for Medicaid-enrolled children with special healthcare needs at a new webinar from Manatt Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.


09.24.19

Navigating the Healthcare Highway With Lyft’s Head of Healthcare

Editor’s Note: In the latest edition of her Tech Tonics podcast series, Manatt Health’s Lisa Suennen speaks with Megan Callahan, Head of Healthcare for Lyft.


09.24.19

Landmark Legislation AB5 Codifies Dynamex ABC Test and More

In a signing statement on September 18, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom declared Assembly Bill 5 “landmark legislation for workers and our economy.”


09.24.19

California Delays Sexual Harassment Training Requirements

California employers set to comply with the new sexual harassment training requirements arising out of last year’s Senate Bill 1343 got a recent reprieve with new legislation that provides a partial one-year extension. 


09.24.19

California Supreme Court: Unpaid Wages Are Not Recoverable Under PAGA

In a welcome surprise for employers, on September 12, 2019, the California Supreme Court resolved the significant issue of whether unpaid wages constitute a civil penalty recoverable in Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims premised on violations of Labor Code Section 558.


09.24.19

Three Big Moves From the NLRB

The top three stories in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) news in recent weeks include (1) a decision holding that the misclassification of workers does not constitute an independent violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), (2) a ruling on mandatory arbitration agreements in the ...


09.24.19

Ninth Circuit Adopts But-For Causation Standard in ADA Discrimination Claims

Rejecting the motivating factor causation standard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared that the “but-for” standard of causation applies to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) discrimination claims.


09.24.19

Court Sides With Nurse in Discrimination Suit

Claims of racial bias brought by a black nurse who was reassigned by her employer after a white patient complained can move forward, a federal court in Michigan ruled, writing that any intentional use of race—even for benign motives—must be subjected to careful judicial scrutiny.


09.24.19

Online Accountability Program Update: Enhanced Focus on Enhanced Notice

Continuing its efforts to have app and website operators provide users with enhanced notice about third-party data collection, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Online Accountability Program recently issued a pair of new decisions.


09.24.19

CEOs Call for National Privacy Law

A coalition of chief executive officers (CEOs) representing 51 businesses urged congressional leaders to enact a federal privacy law that would preempt state laws and provide a uniform national framework.