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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 8', '§ 8']

by Bernadette M. O'Brien (Author) , Lizbeth West (Author)
ISBN: 9781522141686
ISBN: 9781522141693
Lizbeth (“Beth”) West is a Shareholder with Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin and practices in the firm’s Labor and Employment Group. She is admitted to practice law in the states of California and Washington.
Beth assists employers in all aspects of their employment relationship with their employees and defends employers in employment disputes. Her practice focuses on counseling employers, HR, and management staff on matters such as recruiting and hiring; employment agreements and compensation plans; protection of trade secrets; wage and hour laws; independent contractor status; performance standards and disciplinary actions; privacy; accommodations and leaves of absence; preventing discrimination, harassment and retaliation; preventing and responding to theft and embezzlement; reductions in force, terminations, and layoffs; and compliance with other state and federal employment laws. Beth has extensive experience counseling and representing employers in governmental audits with agencies like the DOL, DLSE, EDD, DFEH, EEOC, OFCCP, and others.
Beth is also a regular employment-law trainer on many workplace subjects, including AB 1825 sexual harassment prevention training. Additionally, she is a charter and sustaining member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (AOWI) and conducts independent workplace investigations for both public and private employers. In addition to her counseling, training, and investigation practice, Beth has years of experience defending employers in various forms of employment-related litigation in state and federal court, and in administrative actions before a number of state and federal agencies. She has successfully defended and settled multi-million dollar wage and hour class actions, and has also defended and won complex breach of contract, discrimination, whistleblowing, and retaliation claims on summary judgment. Finally, based on her years of experience as an employment litigator and her specialized training and certification from Cornell University’s ILR School in employment mediation, Beth also serves as a mediator and provides trusted and effective mediation services exclusively in the area of employment disputes pre and post litigation. Beth was selected for inclusion in Northern California Super Lawyers for 2009, 2010, 2012–2016; Top 25 Sacramento Super Lawyers for 2013, 2015, and 2016; Top 50 Northern California Women Super Lawyers for 2014–2016; and Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers for 2015–2016. She also was selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America in 2015; an honor bestowed on less than one half of one percent of American lawyers.
In addition to her busy law practice, Beth is active in supporting the education of employers and attorneys in the field of employment law. She is a contributing editor for The Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide: Employment Litigation, and writes regularly for Weintraub Tobin’s Labor and Employment Law Blog. She also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Employer Advisory council (SEAC) from 2011 through 2013. Beth has previously been an adjunct professor of law at UOP, McGeorge School of Law, and continues to teach the Elimination of Bias in the Practice of Law course at UOP McGeorge’s annual CLE conference. She is also a regular speaker for various commercial and continuing education programs on employment issues facing employers in California.
Beth is also involved in charitable work in the local community and globally. She belongs to the Sacramento Advocates for Girl Empowerment (SAGE), an outreach organization to underprivileged children, and is a sponsor for the SPCA in Sacramento and Yolo Counties. She previously led Weintraub Tobin’s “Champions for Adoption” Team with Sierra Adoption Services (now Sierra Forever Families) to raise money to place foster children in loving adoptive homes. She is also a member of the Habitat for Humanity Global Village Mekong Big Build Team that built a village of homes for poor and displaced families in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2013, and volunteers for Special Spaces, a non-profit that performs bedroom makeovers for terminally or chronically ill children.
Chapter 5 PREGNANCY LEAVE
§ 5.05 Statutory Wage Replacement Benefits for Pregnant Employees
§ 5.06 Penalties and Potential Legal Exposure for Failing to Comply With Pregnancy-Related Laws
§ 5.07 Best Practices for Compliance and Administration of Pregnancy Leave
§ 5.08 Key Cases
§ 7.04 Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault/Stalking Victims Leave
§ 7.07 Literacy Assistance Leave
§ 7.08 Organ and Bone Marrow Donor Leave
§ 7.09 Rehabilitation Accommodation Leave
§ 7.10 Paid Sick Leave
§ 7.11 San Francisco’s Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance
§ 7.12 School Related Leave
§ 7.13 Volunteer Firefighter/Law Enforcement Training Leave
§ 7.14 Voting Leave
§ 8.02 Bereavement Leave § 8.03 Education Leave