Retaliation

You work for a company in California, and you typically take your lunch breaks at your desk. The business isn’t very close to any restaurants or anything of this nature, so you just bring lunch from home.

In the Golden State, meal and rest breaks are fundamental rights for employees, protected by some of the nation’s most stringent employment laws.

You work at a hardware store, where you are a cashier at the front desk. Every day, you take a lunch break, and you generally just sit in your car and eat a snack lunch outside of the store.

In California, although there are some exceptions, most workers deserve meal and rest breaks during the day. For instance, if your workday exceeds five hours, you need to have at least a meal break and a rest break.

California employment laws give you a lot of protection as an employee. Yet, if you do not understand them, your employer may well take advantage. One area of employment that features clear rules and regulations involves rest breaks and meal breaks. One way that some employers violate these is by expecting their employees to pick…

You get a new job, and you are talking with your coworkers during a break when you find out that you make much less money than they do. You’re doing the same job, but your starting rate is lower than what they got when they signed on.

Do you work outside in California? You have probably experienced some extreme heat and air quality challenges during your work day in the summer. However, California adopted new heat safety regulations for employers to provide to their employees. This is what you should know. Weather monitoring Your company should have someone watching the weather two weeks in…