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Complex Employment Issues In Elder Care, Marci Seville, Hina Shah
Complex Employment Issues In Elder Care, Marci Seville, Hina Shah
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While lawyers often associate estate planning with aging parents, there are, in fact, a host of employment law issues related to elder care that can leave one's head spinning. This article addresses obligations that arise under California law when you or your family members hire caregivers. When hiring a caregiver — either at home or when additional individual care is needed in a facility such as assisted living — you must comply with a complex patchwork of laws and regulations governing wages and working conditions.
Broadening Low-Wage Workers' Access To Justice: Guaranteeing Unpaid Wages In Targeted Industries, Hina Shah
Broadening Low-Wage Workers' Access To Justice: Guaranteeing Unpaid Wages In Targeted Industries, Hina Shah
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The need to restructure the limited liability rule as it applies to low-wage workers' wages is more compelling than ever. As the Wins case illustrates, a simpler and more straightforward mechanism is needed to ensuring that low-wage workers recover the wages they earned. This article offers an in-depth analysis on the problems faced by wage creditors and sets forth recommendations for reform that would guarantee low-wage workers' wages, thus exempting them from the limited liability rule. Part II traces the history of the limited liability rule. Particular attention is paid to the justifications for the limited liability rule, the effect …
Chinese Soup, Good Horses, And Other Narratives: Practicing Cross-Cultural Competence Before We Preach, Marci Seville
Chinese Soup, Good Horses, And Other Narratives: Practicing Cross-Cultural Competence Before We Preach, Marci Seville
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Before we undertake teaching our students about cross-cultural competence, we need to examine carefully our own practices, and those of our colleagues and institutions, to ensure that we are not complicit in the very practices of cross-cultural “incompetence” that we hope to train our students to avoid. While there is a substantial body of scholarship on teaching this competence to our students, there is less written about practicing it ourselves as teachers and members of academic institutions. This essay will examine the latter subject and will hopefully provide some productive suggestions on ways to expand cross-cultural competence for our law …
Report To The Legislature Fiscal Year 2010-2011, Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Report To The Legislature Fiscal Year 2010-2011, Agricultural Labor Relations Board
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