by Sayema Hameed If an employer includes an arbitration clause in a written employee handbook, provides the handbook to an employee, and obtains a written acknowledgment of receipt of the handbook from the employee, is that enough to enable the employer to compel arbitration of the employee’s wrongful termination claims? In a recent case, the …
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Robles v. Employment Development Department: Employee’s Attempt To Use Shoe Allowance For Friend Does Not Disqualify Him From Unemployment Benefits
by Sayema Hameed In California, a terminated employee will be disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits if the employee is found to have engaged in “misconduct” connected with his or her most recent work. (Cal. Unemp. Ins. Code Section 1256.) In a new case, Robles v. Employment Development Department (First District, Div. Four, Case No. A132773; …