Protecting The Rights Of Workers
Throughout California
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...
Sometimes workers are not paid what they are owed because of simple mistakes on the part of the employer. In other cases, employers consciously try to cheat workers out of their wages. This is called wage theft, and it happens more often than most people realize. In...
Any time an employment law violation affects many employees, there may be grounds for a class action lawsuit or another type of representative action. A class action or representative action may arise for multiple reasons, including wage and hour violations, illegal...
Wage and hour laws in California protect workers from being taken advantage of by employers, and California has some of the strongest worker protections in the world. Following are some basic things to understand about California wage and hour laws: Minimum wage The...
Many types of workers are required to miss meal and rest breaks or work overtime hours due to the conditions of their jobs. This is a serious problem when workers are not properly paid for missed breaks and overtime hours. In some cases, employers require workers to...
When it initially became law, the California Equal Pay Act was designed to protect the rights of employees whose employers engage in discriminatory wage practices based on gender. Since the Act became law, it has been updated several times, most notably in 2015 when...
It's an increasingly common tactic for employers to ask employees to sign an arbitration agreement that bars the employees from filing a class action lawsuit. However, in California, it is illegal to bar all representative actions, and many arbitration agreements are...
In California, workers are generally entitled to compensation for non-compliant meal and rest breaks. That means, if your employer fails to provide you with required meal and rest breaks that are free of work duties, you are entitled to compensation for those missed...