Employment Law

The structure and hierarchy of companies can be complex, particularly in larger organizations. Employees with different roles and contractual terms have to be managed, and this is where the Human Resources (HR) department comes in.  The HR department of your company...

Many laws protect employees from discrimination and harassment in their workplace. When these laws are broken, typically, the offenders face some kind of repercussion, such as termination or legal fines. As a result of a discrimination or harassment claim, employers...

California is a diverse state and one that generally prides itself on being welcoming to people of all backgrounds. The majority of workplaces also do their best to try and assert the same standards. Sadly, there are occasions where workplaces fail in this regard....

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...