If you've recently moved to California, you probably knew that it was possible to earn overtime pay, but you may not be familiar with double overtime. This is a concept that is fairly exclusive to the state and is set up by state law, rather than federal law. You may...
If you are an hourly worker, you deserve compensation for all of the time you put in on the job. Unfortunately, plenty of companies will try to minimize how much they have to pay you. Wage theft is a serious issue that affects hourly workers across the United States....
You started working in a tipped profession -- like waiting tables -- because you wanted to keep the tips for yourself. You know you’re good at your job and you see it as a way to make more money per hour than you would in most other professions. However, your...
When you work long, hard hours, maybe doing construction, warehouse or landscaping work, you expect to get paid fairly. In California, you face high living expenses, so you want to get the wages you deserve. What you may not realize is that California has different...
Sometimes employers take advantage of their workers by misclassifying them as contract workers when they actually are company employees. Additionally, the laws are ambiguous enough that a worker may qualify as an employee under federal laws but still retain his or her...
Employers can use various guises to pay their workers less than what is legally owed them, or to deny them the benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled to receive. One way this is done is through misclassification of a worker's status. Below are some common...
Compared to many others around the country, California has long been a state that enforced wage laws that protected its workers. For example, the California Equal Pay Act prohibits employers from paying lower wages to workers of one gender than the workers of the...
This month, Republicans in the House of Representatives brought up a proposed bill that would permit corporations to stop paying workers overtime by instead substituting compensatory time. House Democrats oppose the bill, claiming that worker protections would be...
California's agriculture industry is a vital part of the economy. While this industry provides much-needed employment for many people, some employees are not receiving the pay they are entitled to under the state's current wage and hour laws. This is generally known...