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Kyndall Banales defends employers against various employment claims, including discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour.

While attending law school, Kyndall served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Troy L. Nunley of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and was an intern in the Special Prosecutions section at the California Department of Justice.

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As Congress approaches a funding lapse resulting in a government shutdown, California employers should prepare for several indirect effects on workplace operations. Although a federal shutdown does not halt California’s employment laws, it does pause many federal agency functions, as discussed below.

Federal Enforcement Agencies

Most federal labor agencies will furlough staff and suspend routine…

In Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating, Inc., a California Court of Appeal answered a question that many California employers may not have known even needed to be answered—whether California employees can prospectively waive their mandatory meal periods.  Given the almost universal use of such waivers by employers (based on the assumption that the waivers are…