Employment Law

If your employer is terminating your employment, they may offer you a severance package. While it’s not as good as keeping your job, at least you’re getting something in return for the time you spent with them. You may be tempted to sign a severance agreement on the...

Sometimes, you need to take unscheduled time off work for medical reasons, be they your own, or those of a family member. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows you to take up to 12 weeks off per year for certain medical and family needs. The time off will be...

News out of California may have the higher-ups at Google a bit alarmed: Four women, all former employees, are now seeking class-action status for their gender discrimination claim against the tech mega-corporation. According to the plaintiffs, Google routinely paid...

You have always had a 9-to-5 job, and every other employer has paid you on time and with overtime when you worked over 40 hours a week. You even took extra time from others, so that you could earn as much as possible. Your employer didn’t approve the hours, and when...

Cisco System, headquartered in San Jose, is facing a lawsuit brought by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing regarding the treatment of an employee. The engineer at the center of the lawsuit is a Dalit Indian, which is considered an untouchable in...

If your company offers paid maternity leave, they will likely have explained the conditions you must meet in order to secure that leave when you first got hired. However, paid maternity leave is an employer benefit. Even if you don't have any paid leave, you still...

Oh, it’s Mexican theme day at work, so everyone is encouraged to wear sombreros and ponchos and your co-workers seem to think that putting on a fake accent that sounds roughly Hispanic is great fun. Or, maybe you’re an African-American and you have a white co-worker...

An employee in the Los Angeles County library system has filed suit against his employer, contending the library system put staff members and patrons at personal risk. The whistleblower lawsuit is asking for unspecified damages. The whistleblower states in the suit...

The terms of severance agreements are usually the result of negotiations between the employee and employer. If you’re in the process of negotiating a severance contract, there are some important points you need to think about because they can have a great impact on...

One of the biggest problems that employees run into is being misclassified. Sometimes, their employers act like they are not actually the boss, but they still hold the workers to the standards of any other employees. They may control them or tell them what to do. They...