A lawsuit by a former senior field deputy to City Councilman Curren Price, in which she claims she was wrongfully fired in 2024 for being a whistleblower, can move forward, a judge has ruled. The ...

A performance improvement plan — also referred to as a “PIP” — is a human resources tool commonly used by employers. As illustrated by the recent decision in Walsh v. HNTB Corporation, 169 F.4th 3...

The CEO said executive quit. The judge read the texts and disagreed A string of text messages was enough to fire a chemical company's chief operating officer without notice, an Alberta court has ru...

San Diego County is suing a major sushi supplier that operates in the region’s largest supermarket chains and specialty stores throughout California, alleging that it classifies sushi chefs as ind...

A lawsuit by a former senior field deputy to City Councilman Curren Price, in which she claims she was wrongfully fired in 2024 for being a whistleblower, can move forward, a judge has ruled. The C...

School may be out for the summer, but employment law doesn’t take a vacation. More than 55 compliance changes are set to kick in around July 1, according to tracking by compliance platform Brightm...

Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine. Temnee Wright, ’08 has realized a successful career as legal counsel at several Silicon Valley com...

A former Wells Fargo & Co. employee who had her federal whistleblower complaint over pre-financial crisis mortgage practices denied isn’t entitled to a review of the Justice Department’s decis...

Campus remembers noted authority on civil rights and civil liberties law, employment law and constitutional law Leland Ware, the inaugural Louis L. Redding Chair for the Study of Law and Public Po...