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California Labor Laws :: Overtime Pay, Vacation Time, Employee
Rights, Wrongful Termination, Unlawful Retaliation
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Ca Labor Law :: Employee Dispute Representation |
Harris & Kaufman law firm litigates cases for
employees involving the California Labor Law including wage disputes,
workplace harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination.
The California Labor Law protects workers and employees from workplace
sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and wrongful termination.
Our lawyers are aggressive and experienced attorneys who represent
plaintiffs in individual and class action lawsuits. Our labor lawyers
can assist you when you believe that your employer has broken California
labor law. We specialize in litigation involving all aspects of
employment regulations and can help solve your problems at work.
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California State Overtime Pay Labor Law
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We can help you in a wage dispute to recover
overtime pay, unpaid sales commissions, in tip pooling, if you've
been improperly classified as an independent contract, and in other
violations of the law. These and other regulations
exist to help ensure that you receive the pay you have rightfully
earned. Harris & Kaufman can help ensure that you receive withheld
pay and other allowances due you.
Employers face big penalties if they retaliate against employees who pursue their wages, overtime pay and other benefits. Employers cannot fire, demote or otherwise harass employees because they seek their fair wage. To protect employees, statutes provide for damages, injunctive relief ordering the employer to refrain from prohibited conduct and monitoring the employer's behavior, interest, attorneys' fees and costs.
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Recover Vacation Pay Withheld by Your Employer
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Harris & Kaufman can also assist you with recovering vacation pay. California Labor Laws state, it is illegal for employers to institute a "use it or lose it" provision regarding vacation time. An example would be if you accumulated 10 vacation days, and decided not to use them until next year. It is illegal for your employer to strip you of this vacation time without pay. The employer can cap accumulated vacation, and can control when and for how many days you take vacation. If an employers offers vacation benefits, the employer must follow state regulations. Harris & Kaufman has the experience to help you recover lost vacation pay.
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Tips on the
Job |
What are tips and when should they be paid? A tip is money a customer leaves for an employee over the amount due for the goods sold or services rendered. Tips belong to the employee, not to the employer. If a customer tips on a credit card, the tip must be paid to the employee no later than the next regular payday following the date the patron authorized the credit card payment. Employers can not take any credit card processing fees from the tips.
If I receive tips on the job, do I have to share them with my employer? California Labor Laws state employers cannot share in tips or tip pools of their employees. Sometimes a supervisor or owner of a business takes a percentage or a fee out of their employee's tips. Even though this is practiced in restaurants, hotels, and casinos, this is strictly prohibited.
As in all other wage cases, an employee can recover attorney's
fees in an action to recover tips.
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Wrongful Termination & Unlawful
Retaliation |
Our attorneys can represent you before the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission. We also can help protect your rights if there is unlawful retaliation on the part of your co-workers or employer after you make a complaint. If your employer fires you or denies you benefits because of your complaint, then you have recourse to sue your employer. Harris & Kaufman offers experience with the California labor law and can defend you when your job becomes intolerable, or you are fired illegally.
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Sexual Harassment |
Employers have a duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Once a complaint of sexual harassment is made, an employer must undertake all reasonable steps to prevent it.
Sexual harassment is an extremely complex area of the law, and employees should consult with knowledgeable attorneys if they fee they are sexually harassed. A lawsuit on the basis of sexual harassment may likely require the filing of a claim with different state and federal administrative agencies. People who think they have been sexually harassed are strongly advised to seek legal assistance. As experienced labor attorneys, we can represent you in California state and U.S. District Court. California labor laws prohibit female and male sexual harassment.
We Litigate Disputes Over "Exempt" and "Non-exempt" Status
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Many disputes stem from misuse of the employee classifications
of "exempt" and "non-exempt." This classification also includes outside salespersons and managers. In California, managers who spend more than 50% of their time doing the same work as their employees are sometimes classified as exempt, when they should be non-exempt. Whether the employee is salaried makes no difference. That "manager" can recover for overtime pay earned but not paid. Harris & Kaufman recently prevailed in a class action case like this for employee "managers" of
U-Haul.
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Harris & Kaufman Can Help You |
Harris & Kaufman is a California law firm that's dedicated to representing employees in disputes against their employers regarding California State labor and employee law. Our lawyers can assist you if you believe that your employer has broken the California Labor Law.
Our employment attorneys are experienced and have had numerous trials, arbitrations, and appeals and have litigated on behalf of thousands of employees.
Harris & Kaufman has represented workers in state and federal court and in administrative proceedings before the California Labor Commissioner. Determined and aggressive, our cases include individual disputes and class action lawsuits. Based in Sherman Oaks, California we serve greater Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura County and have cases statewide.
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