By-law employee benefits
Thanks to federal and state laws, employees in California have a legal right to receive some benefits, in addition to their fixed wages, from their employer as an “extra” to the compensation that must be paid to them periodically. These benefits are mandated and an employer’s failure to pay or provide such benefits to a […]
Social media and the hiring process
Social networks have become a tool to get to know more than one person in all aspects of our lives, even in recent years it has become much more common for recruiters to seek to review the networks of potential candidates to learn more about their personality. We even now have the famous social network […]
Adverse actions in the workplace
After you decided to sue or accuse your employer of illegal or unfair acts that it was committing against you and your co-workers, whether you spoke only with the human resources department, a superior or an entity of worker support, you should not receive any type of punishment since you did it solely based on […]
What to do if your employer is refusing to pay you?
Under the laws of the state of California, employers have the obligation not only to pay your salary, but also to pay it in the time established in your contract, otherwise, delaying for a period of time may mean that you are violating labor laws and should be held accountable for these violations. By signing […]
Illegal Retaliation
Thanks to various federal and state laws in California that protect the rights of workers, any employee who files a complaint against their employer because they feel that their rights are being violated, is protected from illegal retaliation that their employer could take in his against. Employers are prohibited from punishing or unfairly firing someone […]
Consequences of misclassification
Some employers choose to misclassify their workers as independent service providers, in order to avoid the taxes they would have to pay if they were paid a fixed salary. However, this has consequences in the lives of workers as they cannot receive all the benefits that an employee should receive, simply due to a misclassification […]
Workplace defamation
Cases of defamation in the workplace can seriously affect the victim causing difficulties or problems at work by affecting their personal and/or professional image. The term labor defamation refers to the moment in which a worker or a group of workers starts a false rumor about one of their colleagues and tells it to more […]
Wrongful termination types
There are some occasions when employers decide to fire a worker for illegal reasons and unfairly, which takes the employee by surprise feeling betrayed or even not having received the monetary compensation they deserved for having been fired. These cases are the most common causes of lawsuits in the labor area due to how common […]
Wage Theft
Wage theft is a serious problem in the workplace that thousands of workers around the country have to face. This situation occurs when the employer decides to stop paying the employee what he really deserves for all the work he has done. There are different forms of wage theft that companies commit in order to […]
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act was established with the purpose of protecting the rights of people with some type of disability in different areas of everyday life such as means of transportation, jobs, public places, among others. The aim is to ensure that this sector of the population has access to all these facilities and […]