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  • What Break Periods Am I Entitled To?

    What Break Periods Am I Entitled To?

    Under California law (which is much more generous to employees than federal law), if you are a non-exempt worker, you are entitled to meal and rest breaks: a 30-minute meal break if you work more than 5 hours in a workday, and 10 minutes breaks for every 4 hours you ...

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  • Can My Employer Break My Employment Contract? Can I?

    Can My Employer Break My Employment Contract? Can I?

    Whenever it comes to contracts, the answer is always the same: it depends on what the contract says. A contract is a contract is a contract. Neither you nor your employer can breach a contract without facing the consequences. That is, unless the contract says it's ok. This is why ...

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  • Top 5 Tips: So You Want to Sue Your Boss?

    Top 5 Tips: So You Want to Sue Your Boss?

    So you want to sue your employer for racial discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower retaliation, failure to pay you your last paycheck, what have you. Now what? Here are five tips all clients should keep in mind before they pick up the phone to call a lawyer. Tip 1: Write it, don’t ...

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  • Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”?

    Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”?

    "At-Will". California is an "at-will" employment state. What does this mean? In most cases, it means that your boss can fire you at any time for almost any reason or no reason at all. She can fire you because she doesn't like you thinks you're too tall or short thinks you talk too ...

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  • Background Checks — What Are My Rights?

    Background Checks -- What Are My Rights?

    If you're applying for a job, or want to keep one, you're going to have to accept that background checks are becoming a part of work life. An estimated 50% of resumes submitted by job applicants contain false or inaccurate information. Bad employees who slip through the hiring process can ...

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Should Workers Be Paid for Answering Emails After Hours?

121109 0441 ShouldWorke1 Should Workers Be Paid for Answering Emails After Hours?In today’s high-tech world, a constant connection to the web and phone comes at a price for workers: all too often, the office comes home with you. A Pew Internet & American Life Project 2008 study entitled “Networked Workers: Most Workers Use the Internet or Email at their Jobs, but They Say These Technologies are a Mixed Blessing for Them”, (more…)

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Dept. of Labor Fails to Protect Workers: “We have a crisis in wage theft”

040809 0612 deptoflabor12 Dept. of Labor Fails to Protect Workers: “We have a crisis in wage theft” Is your boss ripping you off by refusing to pay you overtime? Forcing you to work off the clock? Not letting you take meal or rest breaks? If so, you might want to think twice about calling up the U.S. Department of Labor to lodge a complaint. According to a recent GAO report, it will likely be months before you get a (more…)

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