Regardless of our current health status, eventually, everyone will get sick, be injured or have some kind of family emergency. Luckily, at both the federal level, with the Family and Medical Leave Act, and state level, with the state of California passed the...
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Protections against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace
Some workers may not be aware that pregnancy discrimination is prohibited in the workplace and hiring process. Because of the important protections prohibitions against pregnancy discrimination provide, it is important for impacted workers to be familiar with how...
Remote work has compliance challenges
Remote work offers advantages such as continued employment and business operations during the ongoing health crisis and opportunities for workers who face great difficulties with commuting to a daily job. But remote and telework can complicate compliance with local...
Lunch and snack breaks while working: know the law
California workers may skip a lunch break once in a while in order to catch up with some work that is long overdue, but when they begin to do it regularly, it can have employment law ramifications. It is important for employees to understand how the law is in place to...
Violence Is Not Speech
Throughout this last year and more recently on January 6, 2021, we have seen pictures and alerts flood across our phones and T.V. screens of violent riots, destruction, looting and now our nation’s capitol being overrun. While protest and disagreements are at the very...
Know how to spot racial discrimination in the workplace
Nobody should be forced to work in an environment that is unsafe or denies them equal employment opportunities as provided for under the law. Yet, the sad reality is that many Californians are subjected to workplace discrimination that threatens their wellbeing. Those...
What compensation is available in an employment law claim?
Current and former employees in California may decide to file a lawsuit against their employers for a multitude of reasons. Some of these reasons may include violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Fair Labor...
Choose Happiness for the Holidays
We know 2020 has been a rough year and, for some, the holidays present even greater challenges. In these difficult times, it becomes even more important to remind ourselves that happiness is not determined by how others feel about us, or even how we have felt in the...
Are You Working From Home?
If so, you are among many who back in March of this year packed up their office supplies and headed home for what most of us believed was just going to be a few weeks. As we all now know, those few weeks turned into months and is now coming up on close to a year. In...
Popular non-profit faces allegations of harassment, retaliation
Non-profit organizations are usually mission-driven and staffed by employees who share common values and beliefs. For this reason, these workplaces tend to be a good model of what respect and cooperation between coworkers should be. Unfortunately, things aren’t always...