While this blog is dedicated to my primary area of practice: representing companies against unions, I am also an employment lawyer. As an employment lawyer, companies seek my counsel regarding wage and hour issues among other human resource-related things. This California case is relevant to all companies that have employees, regardless if they are in…

Illegal aliens who want to sue their employers for unpaid wages should do so in federal court in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, or South Dakota. Not in New York, D.C., or Connecticut. An employer failed to properly complete Form I-9s verifying its workers’ employment eligibility. The workers sued for unpaid minimum and…