Blog: Employment Law

California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Government Code 12940, prohibits employment discrimination or harassment based on gender, gender identity, or gender expression. Some cities have passed their own regulations protecting gender identity and expression in the workplace. The city and county of San Francisco, for instance, has issued guidelines that include: Employers have the right …

Under California employment law, all employers have a legal obligation to pay employees the entire amount of wages they’ve earned and to pay these wages on time. Workers in California are protected to the full extent due to the state’s expansive worker’s rights, which cover various aspects of wage distribution. When you must be paid, what …

Recently we have written about the possibility of getting resentenced or having your marijuana conviction dismissed and sealed under Proposition 64–California’s recreational marijuana law. Briefly, Proposition 64 provides that certain marijuana-related activities are no longer crimes–or are less serious crimes than they were before that law was passed. If you were sentenced under the old …

Ride-sharing company Uber typically does not allow people with felony convictions to sign up as drivers. But the company announced today that it will hire drivers who were originally convicted of felonies–but whose convictions have been reduced to misdemeanors under Proposition 47. Prop 47, passed in 2014, reclassified several former California felonies as misdemeanors, including: Grand …