California law operates to ensure employers provide employees with the equipment and resources necessary to work and protect employees by preventing employers from passing operating expenses on to employees. To that end, the Labor Code mandates that California...
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) is the primary law that provides employees with protection from discrimination, retaliation, and harassment in employment. All employment provisions of the FEHA anti-discrimination provisions apply to all employers...
Wage theft. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1003 on September 27, amending the Penal Code to establish criminal penalties for grand theft for an employer's intentional theft of wages, payments, or gratuities greater than $950 from any one employee or $2,350...
The duty to mitigate is a well-established contract principle. Simply put the duty to mitigate places a legal obligation on an injured individual to minimize the effects and losses resulting from the injury. The common example used to illustrate this is a homeowner...
The short answer is no, but to fully understand California’s leave laws, we must first look at California Family Rights Act (CFRA) and the Federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Despite the two covering similar issues, there are key differences. California Family...
A whistleblower is an employee who “tells” on their employer because an employee reasonably believed that the employer committed an illegal act. Many violations of the law, and many dangers to public health and safety, go unreported because people who know about them...
Standing up against sexual harassment in the workplace is a protected activity. It’s your right to expect that your workplace is free of sexual harassment, and your employer isn’t legally allowed to retaliate against you for reporting it. Under federal and California...
Discrimination can take many forms. For most employees, getting fired or laid off because of their age is the most harmful type of discrimination. However, any adverse or unlawful actions against an employee may be a form of discrimination. Age discrimination is...
It is unlawful for a California employer to discriminate refuse employment to or to terminate an employee on the basis of a mental or physical disability or medical condition. Other discriminatory practices include demotion, refusing to train a prospective employee...
In most cases, it is unlawful in California for an employer to discriminate against an applicant because of his or her physical or mental disability. Employment discrimination based on a real or perceived disability is a violation of California state and federal law....