First, the bad news: in a recent poll, a quarter – 25% – of employers surveyed said they had caught an employee in a lie about being sick because of social media.The “good” news is that only a little over 20% of the employees who were caught were terminated immediately.  The others might have...

A huge wrongful termination settlement was recently awarded to Cynthia Begazo for her case. Begazo initiated the case in September of 2015 after she was fired from Passages Malibu Rehab Center. She alleged that the termination was wrongful on the basis of discrimination and retaliation.Begazo started working for Passages Malibu in March 2015 as their Human...

Misclassification of employees in California often occurs not as the result of some mistake or misunderstanding, but rather, by design. Employers engage in this illicit practice because they attempt to dodge paying employees critical benefits and offering them the protections they are entitled to under the law such as minimum wage, overtime pay, family and...

Harassment in the workplace can be an extremely stressful and traumatic experience. While incidents of workplace harassment don't often make it to the news, they are a common occurrence. Women and men routinely endure harassment and discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.Harassment refers to any type of unwanted behavior – verbal or...

California's overtime law requires employers to pay those employees who are eligible twice their rate of pay when they have worked more than 12 hours in one workday or more than eight hours on their seventh consecutive day of work. Employees who qualify for overtime in California are paid 1.5 times their normal rate when they work...