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While on location at the California School Boards Association’s (CSBA) 2019 Annual Education Conference, host Sloan Simmons talks with CSBA General Counsel, Kathryn Meola, and one of Lozano Smith’s founding partners, Mike Smith, about critical legal issues impacting educational and other public agencies heading in 2020 and beyond.

Show Notes & References

• 2:45  W. v. Tehachapi Unified School Dist., Ninth Circuit Case No. 19-15680, appeal from 2019 WL 1092574 (E.D. Cal. Mar. 8, 2019)
• 2:53  Education Legal Alliance (ELA)
• 3:58  R. ex rel. E.N. v. LAUSD (9th Cir. 2015) 805 F.3d 1164
• 7:13  California Voting Rights Act (CVRA), Elections Code sections 14025-14032 (2001)
• 11:25  Serrano v. Priest (177) 20 Cal.3d 25
• 15:14  Gordon v. LAUSD, Ninth Circuit Case No. 19-55806, appeal from 2019 WL 2511936 (C.D. Cal. June 17, 2019)
• 18:42  Ross v. County of Riverside (2019) 36 Cal. App. 5th 25
• 23:03  Assembly Bill (AB) 1353 (limit on probationary service for classified employees)
• 26:56  L. v. Clovis Unified School Dist., Ninth Circuit Case No. 18-16669, on appeal from 2018 WL 3738963 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 3, 2018)
• 29:10  Payne v. Peninsula School Dist. (9th Cir. 2011) 653 F.3d 863
• 29:26  Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools (2017) 580 U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 743
• 31:18  Paul G. by and through Steve G. v. Monterey Peninsula Unified School Dist. (9th Cir. 2019)
• 33:43  CSBA Online Learning Center
• 35:30  AB 218 (childhood sexual abuse and assault, limitations periods)
• 41:20  Vergara v. State of California, 246 Cal.App.4th 619
• 41:50  Atwater Elementary School Dist. v. California Dept. of General Services (2007) 41 Cal.4th 227

 

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Host Sloan Simmons talks with Lozano Smith partners Michelle Cannon and Gabriela Flowers, co-chairs of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, about important new labor and employment laws passed in 2019 and how they will impact public agency employers in the new year.  Topics covered include employment classifications, probationary periods for classified public school employees, new lactation accommodation requirements, settlement agreements with employees, and expansion of anti-discrimination laws, among others.  This a must listen as we head into the new year, as most of these new laws become effective January 1, 2020, and may require changes to agency policies.

Show Notes & References

• 2:18  Assembly Bill (AB) 1353 (Limit on probationary service for classified employees)
• 4:31  AB 9 (Employment discrimination claim timelines)
• 4:59  California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)
• 5:57  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• 6:17  Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
• 8:01  Senate Bill (SB) 328 (School start times) (Client News Brief 66: November 2019)
• 10:24  SB 188 (Hairstyles)
• 13:07  SB 778 (New sexual harassment training requirements)
• 13:22  SB 1343 (2018)
• 15:52  SB 142 (Lactation accommodations)
• 17:03  AB 749 (Settlement agreement no-rehire language)
• 22:52  AB 1223 (Organ donation)
• 25:33  SB 83 (Family leave policies)
• 27:18  California State Disability Insurance (CA-SDI)
• 28:26  AB 5 (Dynamex decision re employee classifications)
• 30:24  Borello test

 

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