by kyl admin | Jan 28, 2008 | Employment Alerts, Other News
On Monday, January 28, 2008, President Bush signed into law legislation that expands Family and Medical Leave Act coverage for family members of employees called for military service. The expansion requires employers to offer up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected...
by kyl admin | Jan 21, 2008 | KYL Charity News, Other News
Keesal, Young & Logan is proud to announce that it is one of three founding sponsors of the California Bar Foundation’s diversity scholarship program. As described in the Recorder article below, the Foundation is offering individual scholarships to students...
by kyl admin | Jan 15, 2008 | Other News
Law & Politics magazine–along with the publishers of the Los Angeles and San Francisco magazines–publishes an annual list of the top 5 percent of practicing attorneys in each state, spanning more than 60 areas of practice. Designated “Super...
by kyl admin | Jan 1, 2008 | Employment Alerts, Other News
In a 5 to 2 opinion issued yesterday, the California Supreme Court affirmed an employer’s right to terminate an employee for marijuana use, even if the employee has a physician’s recommendation to use medical marijuana to treat a protected disabling...
by kyl admin | Jan 1, 2008 | Employment Alerts, Other News
Today, the California Court of Appeal (Second District) held that a forfeiture provision found in an incentive compensation plan that required participants to forfeit unvested stock upon resignation or for-cause termination did not violate the California Labor Code....