You spent the last few months feeling like it was time to go in a new direction with your career. When you finally went in to tell your employer that you were quitting, it certainly wasn't news to you. But your employer didn't take it as well as you'd hoped. They...
With all the controversial decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the final weeks of its term, an 8-1 decision on a California labor law case got comparatively little attention. The high court ruled that private lawsuits representing a group of employees...
There are laws at the federal level that protect workers from mistreatment by employers, and California also has numerous state laws that expand on those federal protections. The right to overtime pay helps ensure that workers who have to put in more than the typical...
There was recently a story making the rounds on social media about a company that had three of its employees put in their two weeks’ notice relatively close together. This was a burden for the business, so the owner said that all employees in the future would have to...
Imagine that you work at a warehouse, in the shipping and receiving department. Every day, you help to ship products from the warehouse to customers who ordered them online. But your business has another location, and orders sometimes go through that warehouse. They...
You love your job, and one of the perks is that you get to travel around the world. The only thing that you haven’t appreciated is that you’re not paid for the time you spend traveling to the destination, only for the time you spend there after you arrive. To you,...
If you ask your California employer if you can breastfeed at work and they tell you no, you need to understand whether they are within their rights or breaking the law. Here are some things to understand: First, you need to differentiate between breastfeeding, with...
If you are planning to have a child, one of the things you may be wondering about is how long you can take for maternity leave. Your employer provides you with some paid maternity leave, but you want to stay out of work for longer than that. You’ve saved, so you want...
Regardless of what you receive as your base salary or hourly wage, a significant portion of your income will go straight to the government as taxes. Most employees can count on their employers to withhold taxes from their income, but some workers aren't technically...
Worried that a company won’t hire you because of your age? If they discriminated against you and you’re over 40, that’s illegal. You aren’t guaranteed to get the job, of course, but you cannot be denied on account of your age alone. Companies know this. There are very...
