Hiring Discrimination from the Inside: How Hiring Managers can Make a Difference
We often talk about how employees can spot discrimination and protect themselves or their coworkers. We talk about making a change by pointing out the discrimination or taking legal action. But hiring managers are also responsible for upholding ethical hiring practices, even if it goes against your company’s stated policies. If you are a hiring […]
California Employees Should Be Paid While “On Call”
In California, “on call” employees should be paid for the time they wait to learn if they are working or not. If you haven’t been adequately compensated for hours you’ve spent “on call” you may be owed money. “On Call” Workers are Entitled to Pay While Waiting For the Call to Work in CA The […]
Pregnancy Discrimination in the California Workplace
The laws governing pregnancy-related discrimination are very complex and challenging. There are federal laws and state laws that provide specific protections; the law that applies will usually depend on the type of harm alleged. Attempting to navigate these laws without an attorney who is practiced in these matters may cause you to lose benefits to […]
Driver Rights in California: If You Can’t Go Home, You Should be Getting Paid
Many delivery drivers and truck drivers are not being paid fairly. Here in the state of California, labor laws are extremely specific about when an employee should be getting paid and what time constitutes as on-work hours. However, each industry tries to define its worker’s hours in the most economically efficient (for the employer) way […]
How to Passively Insist on Your Right to Meal and Rest Breaks
The federal law requires that all employers provide reasonable rest and meal breaks. California has an even more refined definition of what those mandated meal and rest breaks should be. Specifically, you have a right to a 10-minute paid break for every 4 hours you work. For each 5 hours you work, you also have […]
What Happens To Your Vacation Pay When You Quit/ Are Fired
Vacation pay is a perk many companies use to attract good employees, but what happens when you haven’t used all your days off at the time that you are fired or quit? Here is what you need to know. How Vacation Pay Or PTO Treated In California, paid time off, vacation pay, floating holidays, and […]
CA Temporary Workers: You Are Not Contractors If…
Many businesses hire temporary employees during their busy season or to handle specific large projects that are too much for the regular staff. Temporary work ranges very widely and can be anything from seasonal laborers to tax-season accountants. However, there is a great deal of confusion and sometimes outright fraud as to whether temporary hires […]
Human Trafficking for Labor: What You Don’t Know Will Surprise You
Human trafficking news used to be all about human sex trafficking, but today we are learning that more and more commercial farms, restaurants, bars, and food trucks are trafficking humans for labor. Human trafficking for labor didn’t just start to happen, however. For a long time its victims have taken a backseat to victims of […]
How to Work With Your Employer for Disability Accommodation
Millions of Americans live with a disability every day and figure out how to make their lives work around the medical condition. From paraplegia to ADD, there are many different types of disability and most of them do not stop a person from effectively pursuing a career in something they know and love. But the […]
Do California Employers Reimburse People For Mileage?
Most of us have to drive to get to work, but some types of employment require driving in order to perform job duties. For instance, sales people sometimes have to travel between stores to make their sales, and caregivers have to chauffeur their charges to appointments. This can become expensive for positions where you drive […]
