Employment Law

Your company may be liable for coworkers who are harassing you if your company was negligent in not stopping it. Your company is negligent if it knew or should have known that the harassment was happening, but failed to take immediate and appropriate action to end it. You can recover any wages that you lost …

California termination laws regulate what happens when you are discharged from your job. Here are five that every worker should be aware of: you are generally an at-will employee, if you are terminated for an unlawful reason it can be a wrongful termination, you are entitled to a final paycheck, you are entitled to a …

In California, you can be fired after handing in your 2 weeks notice. While you will not earn your wages, it turns your resignation into a termination. This means you can collect unemployment. If the discharge was in retaliation for you handing in your 2 weeks notice, it can be grounds for a wrongful termination …

If your employer in California denies a reasonable accommodation request, this can amount to discrimination. You can file a complaint with California’s Civil Rights Department or with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). You can also file a discrimination lawsuit against your employer, though you may need a right-to-sue letter. You should also request …

The California DLSE is the state’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. It is also known as the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. It handles claims under California’s wage and hour laws as well as some whistleblower retaliation claims. Because you have to sign your complaint, it cannot be filed online. You can file a complaint in …

A full-time exempt employee is someone who works full-time hours and is exempt from certain state and federal wage and hour requirements, such as overtime and the minimum wage. To be full-time, you must work at least a certain number of hours. To be an exempt employee, you must meet job duties and salary requirements …

In California, travel time is when your employer requires you to be at a designated place and controls how you get there. Because of this control, travel time is compensable in California. It often occurs when your employer makes you go from one worksite to another, or use the employer’s transportation from a designated meet-up …

If you have been written up at work unfairly, you can write a rebuttal letter to challenge your employer’s narrative. The letter can also include evidence that the allegation is pretextual, which can help in a subsequent lawsuit for retaliation or wrongful termination. If you are a public sector employee, you may also have a …

You should consider talking to a pregnancy discrimination attorney if you think you have been treated unfairly because of your pregnancy. This type of discrimination violates state and federal law. It can take many forms, such as being denied sick leave, losing career opportunities, or not being hired. You can file a demand letter or …

Many employers include stock options as a part of the compensation package when making a job offer. 6 things to know about them are: a stock option is the opportunity to buy company stock, not a gift, it may not vest immediately, the purchase price should be at a discount, whether there are future opportunities …

You can bring a lawsuit for wrongful termination when you have been fired or laid off from your job for an illegal or improper reason, such as discrimination or retaliation. Workers who have been wrongfully terminated have a limited time in which to bring their claim. This time period is set by each state’s statute …

Under California employment law, all employers have a legal obligation to pay employees the wages they have earned and to pay these wages on time. This includes the final payment of wages upon a worker’s termination of employment. Per several California Labor Code sections and the state’s labor laws, an employer is subject to penalties …

Assembly Bill 2845 was signed into law by Gov. Brown in September 2018. The bill prohibits employers with five or more employees to do such things as: ask potential employees or applicants about their conviction history; inquire into or consider an applicant’s conviction history until after an employment offer has been made; and, consider an …