California Employee Rights Blog
Discussion of California employment law and legal issues.
Author: James J. and Sara R. Peters are employment lawyers with offices in Ventura, California, and Madison, Wis., in which states both attorneys are licensed members of the bar. She is also licensed in Hawaii.
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Recent Posts from California Employee Rights Blog
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Laid Off? You Still Have Rights! Part 3: Get Your Vacation Pay
In most layoff situations, especially these days, the layoff is legitimate and a necessary evil in cutting costs. However, just because an employee has not been wrongfully terminated in a layoff does not mean they…
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Laid Off? You Still Have Rights! Part 2: Are You a Statistic?
This is our second post in a series on employees’ rights when they get laid-off from work. In our last post, I pointed out that even though an employee may have been “laid-off” with several…
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Laid Off? You Still Have Rights! Part 1: Is Something Fishy?
It seems like every day another company announces mass layoffs in the United States. While we are fielding more calls from potential clients than usual, they have not increased quite as much as overall unemployment.…
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Newsflash: Some Employment Law Defense Attorneys OK
A few days ago I happened upon an article about Littler Mendelson, P.C. They are a large employment law defense firm and have offices in every major metropolitan area of California. I would bet that…
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Are “Discretionary” Bonuses Really Discretionary?
Over the past couple of months I have been dealing with a case against a major national bank on behalf of one of its former employees. The case involves his “discretionary” annual bonus, which most…
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Employee Rights and Hourly Fees Do Not Mix
This past Friday I spoke with a potential client who was recently terminated by his employer. I concluded that he did not have a case worth pursuing and any claims he did have were likely…
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The Perils of Trying to Win at “All Costs”
Some employees (and some employee-rights attorneys) believe that if they are wrongfully terminated and able to get a new job just days later, they will only be able to recover a few thousand dollars and…
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Family Status Discrimination and Equal Pay Laws
This post is part of our ongoing series dealing with "family status" discrimination. Family status claims implicate several employment laws, depending on the facts of a given case. For example, the federal Equal Pay Act…
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“Assumption” Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination
This is our third post in our series on "family status" discrimination. The last post dealt with examples of "moral stereotyping" where an employer's belief on what women should do motivates their discrimination. This post…
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“Moral” Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination
This is my second post in our multi-part series on "family status" discrimination, which is becoming more and more common under both federal and state law. There are many ways family status discrimination can happen…