Last month, California’s Civil Rights Department concluded a three-year-long investigation with Snap Inc. with a $15M settlement, $14.5M of which will be going directly to the victims. Snap Inc., who is owner and developer of the American multimedia instant messaging app Snapchat, had been undergoing investigation since 2021 when the...
Last month, my colleagues reported on the changes to New York discrimination laws and minimum wage and overtime exemption requirements that took effect at the start of the year—two of several significant, new employment legal initiatives of which U.S. employers and employees should be aware. Two others of particular note...
This week, fast food giant McDonald’s announced the firing of its CEO, Steve Easterbrook, because Mr. Easterbrook engaged in a consensual relationship with another McDonald’s employee. Consensual romantic and sexual relationships between coworkers are quite common in the modern workplace, with roughly 1 in 3 employees having engaged in one. But...
New year. New laws. New requirements. Mandatory training. For more than 20 years, our attorneys at Reavis Page Jump LLP have assisted employers and employees in mitigating risk and addressing allegations of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, a growing number of cities and...
RPJ is pleased to welcome our newest Associate Jill Kahn Marshall. Ms. Marshall practices in the areas of employment and labor law, litigation, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution, as well as workplace training, compliance and best practices. Ms. Marshall assists the firm's clients in matters involving claims of employment discrimination and harassment in...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page was quoted in “Time's up: Legal, judicial systems slow to adapt to sexual harassment and assault issues,” an in-depth article appearing in the June 2018 issue of the ABA Journal. The full text of the article is available here, and will appear in the Journal's June 2018 print...
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 25, AltaClaro will feature RPJ Partners Nicole Page and Alice K. Jump in a not-to-be-missed Continuing Legal Education (CLE) webcast for lawyers about the #MeToo movement from their perspectives as lawyers involved. “#MeToo, Now What? The Sexual Harassment Debate from the Legal Trenches” will take a critical,...
Today, AltaClaro, an experiential learning platform for lawyers, featured RPJ Partner Nicole Page on their Ascension blog, on which they share stories, tips and secrets to success from top lawyers in all fields. In Ms. Page's #AscensionStory, entitled "Fighting for Change in the Eye of the Storm," she discusses the year's developments...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page wrote an article for Refinery29 entitled, "Don't Let 2018 Be Business as Usual: How to Fight Discrimination and Harassment at Work" on December 18, 2017. "Women and men don't show up to the workplace as blank slates. By the time most of us enter the work force, we've had more than...