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Nurses have fast-paced, chaotic and demanding jobs. Especially if you work in a hospital setting, your work pulls you in many different directions - your patients need you all the time, and you feel it’s impossible to take a meal break or even rest during your shift....
Rest and meal breaks can feel like a gray area. An employee isn’t done with their shift and often stays at their job during the break period. So can an employer ask that worker to be responsible for anything while on a rest or meal period? The law is pretty clear...
When you took a job opportunity in California’s booming technology industry as a software or web developer, you were excited and had a positive attitude. Your religion or need for daily prayer breaks didn’t cross your mind as becoming an issue in your job. As a...
When you earn a salary instead of an hourly rate, your employer may expect you to work long hours for no overtime pay. As an exempt employee, your hours don’t matter to your total income. But with a new change to labor laws, you may now qualify for overtime. The...
Workers have the right to feel safe in their workplaces and not suffer retaliation from their employers. Workplace retaliation can occur in a variety of circumstances which are prohibited and workers should be familiar with examples of prohibited activity for their...
Workplace discrimination is prohibited in the workplace making it important for workers to understand what the different types of workplace discrimination are. Workers need to be able to enforce their rights against workplace discrimination and need to know what it...
Sexual harassment protections are in place to ensure that workers can go to work each day confident they can feel safe and free from sexual harassment in their workplaces. Both lawsuits against America's fast food giant and complaints with the Equal Employment...
Wage and hour violations refer to monies that a worker has earned and should have received following a hard day's work. When an employer in California has violated the wage and hour laws and protections afforded to workers in the state, there can be consequences. Wage...
California is a state that takes labor violations very seriously — far more than many other states. It provides protections for workers that just don't exist in other areas of the country. The Department of Fair Employment and Housing is where to file complaints...
Employers can legally discriminate against workers for some reasons, but not others. An employer may have a legitimate business reason for giving a raise to one worker and not another, or for firing one worker and not another. But certain types of discrimination are...