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JLG Lawyers | Career Stories | California Employment Law Vanessa Cruz was 30 years old when someone finally asked her if she had ever thought

JLG Lawyers | Career Stories | California Employment Law Vanessa Cruz was 30 years old when someone finally asked her if she had ever thought

By Latrice Burks-Palmerio, Esq., Associate Attorney at JLG Lawyers This article was adapted from a piece published in the Daily Journal. Read the original here.

All of us are well aware that it is an unfortunate reality that there is discrimination in the workplace. However, when it comes to discrimination,

People often ask an attorney about how to prove disability discrimination at work, as often the discriminatory practice isn’t always obvious. A person looking in

Due to legislative updates over the last year, California employers are becoming increasingly limited in the types of questions they can ask candidates during the application and interview process. Here are a few examples of questions that California employers cannot ask in 2019…

If you believe you have been wrongfully terminated, your first step in filing a claim is to determine if your employer broke the law when it fired you. Most workers in California are “at-will” employees. This designation means that businesses can fire employees for nearly any reason or for no reason at all. Even with this “at-will” designation, however, federal and state laws such as the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) protect employees from wrongful termination…

One of the basic tenants of the worker and employer relationship is that employees receive payment for the time they work. While this arrangement is supposed to be straightforward, some employers try to bend the rules or withhold payment to their employees. Because wage theft is one of the most common employment problems that workers face, every employee should be aware of some common ways that businesses withhold wages from workers and the steps you can take to get compensation.

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