Legal Protection For Workers
More and more California employers are asking job applicants to provide their Facebook passwords as part of the hiring process. The rationale is to ensure prospective employees do not have a history of dangerous conduct or affiliations, such as gang affiliations. But...
The public health plan that runs Ventura County's Medi-Cal system has been sued again. In an earlier blog post, we reported on a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by two former Gold Coast Health Plan employees who alleged their termination from employment...
A woman is claiming she was fired from her position with a California college after she became pregnant. Up until last October, the woman was employed as a financial aid specialist by San Diego Christian College. After stories began circulating campus that the...
When someone is fired for a reason that seems unfair, his or her first reaction may be to sue the former employer for wrongful discharge. But upon further review, the discharged employee may be surprised to learn that he or she does not have a viable claim of wrongful...
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...
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...
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...
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...
After hearing three weeks of testimony from 20 witnesses, including filmmaker George Lucas, a California jury awarded a former Lucasfilm employee more than $100,000 in damages for pregnancy discrimination. On review, the 1st District Court of Appeals found the trial...
A Southern California woman claims she was fired from her job at a hospital after taking leave for cancer treatments. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agrees, finding after a three-year investigation that there is reasonable cause to believe the...
