Most California employees are familiar with their rights to family and medical leave under federal and state law. Under the federal Family Medical Leave Act, employees may take up to 12 weeks of time off from work in a year to care for a newborn or newly adopted...
Legal Protection For Workers
’50 Shades’ of sexual harassment
It seems like everyone is talking about "50 Shades of Grey." The erotic romance, which started as an e-Book and gained a huge word-of-mouth following in California and across the nation, is now the best selling paperback of all time. There is even a movie in the...
Silicon Valley firm fined for underpaying workers
A judge has ordered Bloom Energy Corp. to pay 14 Mexican workers nearly $64,000 for wage and hour violations. The green energy company, which manufactures solid oxide fuel cells, brought workers from Chihuahua, Mexico, to its Sunnyvale, Calif., plant to refurbish...
Warehouse owes over $1 million in unpaid wages
The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has cited a Walmart contractor for wage and hour violations. Quetico, LLC, a warehouse operation that packs clothes and shoes for Walmart and other retailers, owes 865 workers more than $1.1 million in unpaid...