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Many companies seek to avoid the costs of direct employment by contracting with outsource providers to perform work, sometimes alongside regular employees, at company facilities.  One advantage of using outsourced labor is...

Way back in 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) used its rule making authority to require all employers, union and non-union, to post a notice to employees describing their rights – including the right to...

The California Labor Commission is taking a hard stance on what it calls “wage theft” by general contractors working on public projects. In some of the cases noted by the Commission, the violations were egregious and...

It used to be pretty simple. A design professional, such as an architect, had very limited duties to a third party purchaser of a home or a homeowners association (HOA).  However, following a recent California appellate...

Basically, bid shopping is the use of the low bid already received by a contractor to pressure other subcontractors into submitting even lower bids.  Bid peddling, on the other hand, is an attempt by a subcontractor to...

The largest gaming club in the state of California is the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, with more than 3,000 slot machines and approximately 200,000 square feet of gaming space.  Other famous gaming operations in...

Most insurance companies have a template of questions (recorded statement guide) for taking recorded statements, which is very useful. Even the most experienced statement takers can forget important questions in the heat of...

April 15th is quickly approaching and people keep asking me if I know any “loopholes” that will help them get out of having to pay their fair share.  The answer I give usually goes something like this, “Well, um,...