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Noah M. Woo focuses on labor and employment litigation and counseling matters. He represents employers in state and federal courts, handling wage and hour class actions, including Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) cases, and single-plaintiff cases involving wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, denial of accommodations and leaves, and wage and hour violations.

Noah provides employment advice and counseling services to personnel at companies of various sizes, from small startups to large corporations. His work includes reviewing employment handbooks, policies, and procedures for compliance, as well as collaborating with executive members and human resources personnel to address various employment matters.

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By design, the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) allows defendants to remove complex class actions to federal court. It avoids the onerous diversity requirements that defendants previously struggled to satisfy, and its $5 million amount-in-controversy threshold is often easy to meet in large class actions. In response, plaintiffs have often thrown up roadblocks to removal…

When an employee’s on-the-job injury affects their ability to perform essential job functions, federal and state law require, among other things, that an employer engage in an “interactive process” to explore potential reasonable accommodations that would allow the employee to perform those essential job functions, absent an undue hardship. Medical leave can be an effective…