If you’re an employee in California, make sure your employer pays you for your time and lets you rest. Under California labor law, employers are not required to offer mandatory grace periods for clocking in and out. However, employers have the option to provide a voluntary 10-minute grace period for employees when they clock out. This flexibility aims to...
Continue ReadingOne of the most common reasons a former employee may file a lawsuit against their previous employer is in cases of wrongful termination, especially in wrongful termination cases won by employees. This type of retaliation is common in cases where an employee speaks out against workplace harassment, discrimination, or illegal activity. After voicing a complaint, the employers have been...
Continue ReadingIf you are working 7 days in a row in California, you might be entitled to overtime pay. What is the maximum number of days allowed to work in a row? In California, labor laws mandate that employers provide employees with a day of rest during each workweek. Specifically, employees generally cannot work more than six consecutive days in...
Continue ReadingAcross America, almost 30 million workers have signed non-compete agreements as a condition of their employment. The purpose of these agreements is to protect trade secrets, confidential customer information, or intellectual property from competitors by placing restrictions on when and where certain high-level or technically skilled employees can retain work. But in the past few decades, employers have increasingly...
Continue ReadingMore than half of non-unionized employees in the U.S. have signed an arbitration agreement in order to work at their current job. Employers often require workers to sign these agreements to prevent them from suing their company in public court for any labor violations or wrongdoing. Until recently, employees in California could use a unique state law to bypass...
Continue ReadingFrançoise Brougher was excited to accept her new role as Chief Operating Officer at Pinterest in 2018. As COO, Françoise was in a critical and influential position at the popular digital scrapbooking company — around 70% of whose users are women. When she joined Pinterest, though, Françoise was shocked to encounter hostility, misogyny, and unequal compensation at the top...
Continue ReadingIt’s a situation that’s all too common. Cassandra worked as a product sales specialist at GE. Although she’d only been there for two years, she was already regularly recognized as one of the company’s top performers. But when she complained to GE about her supervisor’s repeated sexual harassment, the company never followed up on her report with an investigation....
Continue ReadingPregnancy discrimination is among the most pervasive and least discussed forms of employment discrimination in the U.S. Even though discrimination against pregnant workers is banned under federal law, some states, like California, offer women who are expecting even further workplace protections. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes no accident that many women are still unaware of the rights and protections they’re afforded...
Continue ReadingSometimes you just want to finish up your work and be done. It’s not unusual to feel like the best way to accomplish that is by working through a lunch break. In some cases, it’s legal to waive your lunch break and work through your lunch period in California. In other cases, it is not. California meal period laws...
Continue ReadingYou just got home from a long day at work when the phone rings. It’s your manager and he “hates” to bug you, but someone just called in sick. He needs you to cover their shift that night. You tell him that you’re dead tired after working all day. He tells you to take a nap for an hour...
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