Protecting The Rights Of Workers
Throughout California
The state of California has updated some important laws regarding wages and employment. These new updates are designed to give employees more leverage to collect wage and hour awards. The updates will also make it much harder for employers to resist paying workers...
Opportunities for ridesharing and food delivery jobs continue to increase, and rideshare drivers make up a growing portion of the American workforce. Rideshare drivers are generally classified as independent contractors, but in California and other parts of the...
Many instances of workplace harassment are due to the bad actions of a single employee or manager. But in a broader sense, it's often the workplace culture itself that allows the harassment to happen. In many cases, the workplace culture even encourages harassment or...
Wage theft is a widespread problem in California. The California Labor Commissioner's Office is a watchdog agency that has conducted lengthy investigations into wage theft by interviewing employees and reviewing payroll records. The agency has cited many companies for...
Arbitration agreements are a way that employers try to avoid being sued by employees for employment law violations, such as wage and hour violations or sexual harassment. Historically, if an employee or a job applicant signs an arbitration agreement, that person...
Wage theft occurs when an employer refuses to pay the correct amount of wages that an employee has earned. In California and across the country, this type of theft has affected the livelihood of millions of workers. There are certain types of workers who are impacted...
California Governor Gavin Newson has signed Assembly Bill No. 1003 into law. It's a statute that makes intentional theft of wages a felony. As of January 2022, perpetrators of the crime could find themselves charged with grand theft. AB 1003 California Penal Code...
California employment laws provide some of the strongest protections in the world for workers. Those protections include your right to meal and rest breaks. If an employer violates an employee's meal and rest break rights, the employer must pay the employee meal and...
California's wage and hour laws offer some of the strongest protections in the world for workers. Here are some important things to understand if you work in California. Higher minimum wage As discussed in a recent post, California's minimum wage is significantly...
The New Year is bringing good news for workers in California. Starting on Jan. 1, 2022, the new minimum wage went into effect for workers throughout the state. Important: California's minimum wage is significantly higher than the federal minimum wage. Be sure you...