Recent Cases in Employee Privacy Rights, Workplace Arrangements, and Overtime

Three cases from this week showed how employee privacy, workplace arrangements, and overtime remain hot topics in the California employment law landscape. The first case is a settlement by Sony Pictures where it agreed to pay at least $2 million dollars and up to $4.5 million to a proposed class of former and curren...

Bank of America unit will pay $36 million to settle appraiser class action

Bank of America Corp's appraisal unit, Landsafe Appraisal Services, Inc. has agreed to pay $36 million to settle a class action alleging it misclassified residential real estate appraisers as exempt from getting paid overtime. According to Plaintiffs' attorneys, each of the 365 class members will recover about $100,000...