Shelline Bennett

LCW Fresno and Sacramento Office Managing Partner, Shelline Bennett, who is featured monthly on KMPH Fox 26 News Eye on Employment, recently started a series of segments on workplace investigations.
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LCW Fresno and Sacramento Office Managing Partner, Shelline Bennett, who is featured monthly on KMPH Fox 26 News Eye on Employment, recently provided some insight into the newly enacted laws effective January 1, 2024. During this interview, Bennett spoke about the legislative changes, including the...

During this morning’s KNX News Broadcast, LCW Partner Shelline Bennett spoke on TikTok and the importance of employers in establishing clear policies surrounding social media use in the workplace. Check out the full segment below:
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Quoted in Law360, LCW Partner Shelline Bennett speaks on the National Labor Relations Board’s blocking approach in Starbucks employees’ efforts to decertify their union. When unions try to block decertification elections by filing charges with the NLRB, it can be akin to telling workers, Shelline...

Published this morning in both The Business Journal and The Orange County Register, LCW Partner Shelline Bennett speaks on Assembly Bill 2188, which will go into effect on January 1, 2024. This legislation makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate against a person in hiring, terminating, or...

During this morning’s KNX News Broadcast, LCW Partner Shelline Bennett discussed AB 2188, which prevents employers from penalizing or firing an employee who uses marijuana on their own time. “The current drug testing that employers use are primarily drug tests that test for non-psychoactive...

Quoted in Law360, LCW Partner Shelline Bennett speaks on the unionization efforts of Amazon warehouse workers. With regard to strategy, Shelline states, “The national and the bigger unions have so much in playbook that is beneficial to organizing.” Amazon employees departing from that...

Quoted in Law360’s recent article “New Law Brings Calif. Public Sector ULPs Closer To Litigation”, LCW Partner Shelline Bennett uses her labor and employment law expertise to speak on the prospect of economic sanctions for public sector labor violations.
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LCW Partner Shelline Bennett recently appeared on FOX26, where she discussed the employer/employee perspective on quiet quitting.
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In 2013, the Harvard Business Review posited that rudeness in the workplace was “rampant” and “on the rise.” Now, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and in the midst of widespread political polarization, the workplace of 2013 seems downright quaint in comparison.
People have always disagreed...

LCW Partner Shelline Bennett’s article “Codes of conduct and ethics in the public sector” was published in the Aug. 24, 2021 edition of American City & County. The piece, which is part two of her series addressing the prevalence of bad behavior from elected officials, provides elected officials...

LCW Partner Shelline Bennett’s article “Decorum and civility in the public sector” was published in the July 27, 2021 edition of American City & County. The piece provides helpful pointers that aid elected officials in preserving decorum and civility on the job. See article below.
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Partner Shelline Bennett penned the piece “Bringing back decorum and civility in the public sector,” which was published in the June 1, 2021 edition of Western City Magazine. The article provides much-needed tips that elected officials and senior city management can implement to help preserve...

LCW Partner Shelline Bennett provided viewers details on vaccination mandates for employees returning to the workplace during a May 12 Fox 26 (Fresno) Eye on Employment segment. During the segment, Shelline also covered topics like reasonable accommodation as well as healthy and safe workplaces.

The number of individuals who publicly do not identify exclusively as either male or female has increased. Exactly how much is difficult to estimate, but a 2017 survey by GLAAD showed that 12 percent of millennials (i.e., adults who were then between the ages of 18 and 34) identified as something...

There’s been increasing recognition of individuals who do not identify exclusively as either male or female. Employers need to implement practices for creating a non-discriminatory and accommodating workplace.
These individuals—often described as “non-binary” or “gender non-conforming”—are not a...