Harry covers the Home Depot and 99 Cent Stores cases and their real impact on an employer’s compliance burdens. Most employers understandably thought the chair was their friend, but now have to view it as yet another potential avenue of employment liability. Employers with California employees who stand for lengthy periods of time now face a wave of “suitable seating” LCPAGA mass actions in 2011 and beyond. Harry covers the case results, the “suitable seating” wage-hour employee actions we will see in the future, and how best to prepare for them. Harry concludes with proactive measures for employers to consider implementing so they can improve compliance and potentially prevail in suitable seating litigation, all boiled down to a downloadable handout. And if that is not enough, the viewer also gets Sumerian pictographs, hybrid wolf-dogs, and diabolical office furniture…

About After Hours
After Hours is designed primarily for in-house counsel and Human Resources professionals who deal with employment law matters. Using individual podcasts devoted to discrete issues, Harry covers both best practices for legal compliance and recent developments in employment law. The program draws from the realm of wage-hour law, union/management legal and collective bargaining issues, and the wide range of employment law issues generally, but with a particular emphasis on California law and legal developments. Harry hopes to offer the viewer a valuable, informative but also humorous perspective, all in the context of a brief podcast that you can watch at your convenience from your device. After Hours will have new podcasts every one to three weeks. The program is available for automatic download to your computer and mobile device through iTunes.