A complaint lands on your desk. Harassment, discrimination, retaliation, it doesn't matter which. Your first instinct is to get answers fast. But if you skip a few key steps before you start asking questions, you could lose the one protection that keeps your investigation notes, interview summaries, and internal findings out of a plaintiff's hands later. That protection is attorney-client privilege, and it does not attach automatically just because a lawyer is somewhere in th

Pregnancy-related claims in California are risky for employers because three separate laws stack on top of each other, and getting one piece wrong can undo compliance with the rest. Pregnancy Disability Leave, the Fair Employment and Housing Act's reasonable accommodation duty, and the California Family Rights Act's bonding leave each apply independently, and any employee can be entitled to leave and accommodation under all three at different points in the same pregnancy. Emp