Labor and Employment Law
Ca. Labor & Emp't Rev. May 2017, Volume 31, No. 3
Content
- Public Sector Case Notes
- Masthead
- Nlra Case Notes
- Message From the Chair
- Employment Law Case Notes
- Inside the Law Review
- Wage and Hour Case Notes
- Cases Pending Before the California Supreme Court
- Labor & Employment Law Section Executive Committee 2016-2017
- Brinker: the "Werdegar Presumption" Five Years Later
- MCLE Self-Study: Hungry for Clarification: Does the Absence of a Recorded Meal Period Give Rise to a Rebuttable Presumption That the Period Was Not Provided?
Message From the Chair
By Bryan Schwartz
Bryan Schwartz is the Chair of the State Bar of California’s Labor and Employment Law Section. He also serves on the boards of the California Employment Lawyers Association, the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, and the Foundation for Advocacy Inclusion and Resources (FAIR). His Oakland-based firm (www.BryanSchwartzLaw. com) represents employees in individual, class, and multi-plaintiff actions prosecuting discrimination, whistleblower, wage and hour, and other workers’ rights claims in federal and state court and a variety of administrative venues.
DOING OUR JOBS FOR IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS
According to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, about 27% of California’s population is foreign-born—more than 10 million people—and 80% are working-age adults. In total, a third of California workers are immigrants, and nearly half of California’s kids have at least one immigrant parent. Undocumented immigrants are 10% of California’s workforce, according to our State’s Controller, Betty Yee—with an impact of more than $180 billion a year in our state’s economy.