Vision Statement
To be a trusted advisor and advocate for our clients, providing personalized services for their human capital and employment law concerns.
Mission Statement
With 35 years of experience, Elkins Employment Law provides concierge legal services for California based businesses. We support, educate, guide and advocate for our clients through the ever-changing and complex array of laws and regulations governing California businesses. Whether the business has one employee or hundreds of employees, our goal is the same – provide real-world, practical problem-solving advice tailored to meet the needs of the client and to protect the business from employment-related claims.
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Elkins Employment Law
At Elkins Employment Law, with over three decades of extensive California employment law experience, we know the most effective and efficient path to resolving problems is by working closely with our clients – listening to their needs, recognizing and understanding their concerns, and working towards strategic cost-effective solutions.
Whether we are advising employers on the tough day-to-day personnel decisions, conducting workplace investigations to resolve grievances, performing compliance audits, developing agreements, or policies for compliance with the evolving landscape of state, federal, and local employment laws, or defending employment-related lawsuits, we take a proactive common-sense and practical approach to specifically meet our clients’ expectations and needs.
Litigation Defense
Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation defense for businesses, owners, managers, and supervisors when confronted with claims of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, or other employment-related litigation
Training & Education
Counseling
Workplace Investigation
Legal Updates
STATE AND FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT LAW POSTERS AND PAMPHLETS UPDATED
Due to the passage of several new laws, employers must update certain workplace posters: Federal Minimum Wage notice, (applicable to all employers), was updated in response to the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act that passed at the...
read moreNEW COVID RELATED COURT DECISIONS & I-9 UPDATE
First the bad news.... COURT FINDS REIMBURSEMENT OF COVID RELATED WORK FROM HOME EXPENSES REQUIRED As employers are well aware, California Labor Code §2802(a) requires employers to reimburse employees “for all necessary expenditures ... incurred by the employee in...
read moreCALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ALLOWS PAGA CLAIMS TO CONTINUE IN COURT PENDING ARBITRATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS
On Monday, July 17, 2023 the California Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Adolph v. Uber (Supreme Court Case No. S274671) and, as expected, the California high court in an employee friendly ruling, found that a PAGA Plaintiff does not lose...
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