Michael S. Kun

Michael S. Kun
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
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Professional Biography:

Mr. Kun's practice includes:

Litigating more than six dozen class actions and collective actions in California, New York, Georgia and Maryland involving a variety of employment issues, including discrimination and wage-hour claims, and successfully defeating motions for class certification on such claims. The sizes of the putative classes have ranged from 75 to approximately 15,000 employees.
Litigating a wide variety of employment-related claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, misclassification, overtime, meal and rest breaks, restrictive covenants, whistleblower, and defamation cases. Mr. Kun has taken more than a dozen of these cases to trial.
Providing counseling and management training on employment issues.
Drafting and review of employment agreements and restrictive covenants.

Articles in the National Law Review database by Michael S. Kun

The Department of Labor Ends its Payroll Audit Independent Program (Posted On Wednesday, February 10, 2021)
California Supreme Court Concludes That Dynamex Applies Retroactively (Posted On Tuesday, January 19, 2021)
Time Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … a New President (Posted On Monday, January 4, 2021)
California Voters Pass Proposition 22, Allowing App-Based Ride Share and Food Delivery Companies to Treat Drivers as Independent Contractors (Posted On Wednesday, November 4, 2020)
California Election Day Stakes for Ride Share Companies Just Got Higher After Appellate Ruling (Posted On Friday, October 23, 2020)
California Adds More Exemptions to Controversial Independent Contractor Statute (Posted On Tuesday, September 8, 2020)
Webinar Video: Wage & Hour – Expense Reimbursement – Class Action Avoidance Series (Posted On Friday, September 4, 2020)
Ninth Circuit Conclusion That Amazon Delivery Drivers Don’t Need To Arbitrate Their Claims Under FAA’s “Transportation Worker” Exemption Highlights Conflict Among Courts (Posted On Monday, August 24, 2020)
Emergency Stay of TRO Against Ride Share Companies Means Californians Won’t Have To Live Without Services (Posted On Friday, August 21, 2020)
Californians May Have to Live Without Ride Share Services During Appeal of Temporary Restraining Order (Posted On Tuesday, August 18, 2020)
Ride Share Companies Likely to Appeal California TRO Requiring Them to Treat Drivers as Employees (Posted On Wednesday, August 12, 2020)
Illinois Court Joins California Courts in Requiring Postmates to Pay Millions in Arbitration Fees to Defend Hundreds of Individual Arbitrations (Posted On Wednesday, July 22, 2020)
“Employees Won’t Sue Over Alleged Wage-Hour Violations Occurring During the COVID-19 Crisis!” – and Five Other Myths (Posted On Thursday, May 14, 2020)
California Attorney General’s Misclassification Suit Against Ride Share Companies Sets the Stage for a November Showdown (Posted On Wednesday, May 6, 2020)
AB 5, Dynamex and Borello: What Standard Governs Independent Contractor Status In California? (Posted On Monday, March 30, 2020)
Postmates Risks Judicial Rebuke by Filing Suit Against 10,000 of Its Drivers to Try to Escape Individual Arbitrations (Posted On Friday, March 27, 2020)
Employers Facing Layoffs Need to Be Mindful of State Laws Regarding Final Pay (Posted On Thursday, March 19, 2020)
DoorDash Isn’t the Only Company That Has Been Ordered to Conduct More Than 5,000 Individual Arbitrations – Postmates Has Been, Too (Posted On Friday, March 6, 2020)
California Supreme Court Holds That Time Spent Waiting by Apple Retail Employees for Exit Searches is Compensable under California Law (Posted On Friday, February 14, 2020)
Be Careful What You Wish For: California Federal Judge Compels DoorDash to Conduct – and Pay for – More Than 5,000 Individual Arbitrations (Posted On Thursday, February 13, 2020)

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Michael S. Kun is a employment & labor litigator at Epstein Becker Green, focusing on California employment law. He was recognized as a National Law Review Go-To thought leader for his work analyzing Employment Law matters, employment class action litigation, complying with Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Overtime and changing Department of Labor (DOL) wage-hour and salary threshold regulations, as well as changes in arbitration rules. National Law Review readers count themselves well-informed and up to the minute from Kun's expertise.