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Category Archives: Labor Laws
California Employee Benefits Law
California employee benefits law includes both mandatory and voluntary benefits. Mandatory benefits employers must offer include paid sick leave, family and medical leave, workers’ compensation, and pregnancy disability leave. Voluntary benefits, which employers are not legally required to offer but often do, include health insurance…
California Pregnancy Disability Leave Law
The California Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL) law allows employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions to take up to four months of unpaid leave per pregnancy. This law ensures job protection, requiring employers to reinstate them to the same or an…
California Fair Employment and Housing Act
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act is one of the country’s strongest state anti-discrimination laws. The Fair Employment and Housing Act has expanded significantly since it was enacted in 1959 ensuring fair treatment for all California residents. All employees, and potential employees, should be…
California At-Will Employment Law
California's at-will employment law generally permits employers or employees to end a working relationship at any time, for any reason or no reason. However, there are exceptions, such as termination due to discrimination, retaliation, or violations of public policy, which protect employees from wrongful termination.…
Can An Employer Ask for Proof of Disability in California?
Interviewing for a job can be a stressful experience. Once you actually get the job, working in certain places can be just as stressful, if not more so. If you are dealing with a disability, the entire experience can be hard to deal with, especially…
What to Do If You Have Been Misclassified as an Independent Contractor in California?
California’s dynamic, fast-paced, and competitive labor market is unfortunately no stranger to the trend of businesses classifying their workers as independent contractors rather than employees. While gig workers, like app-based drivers, are the most ubiquitous modern example of this, the trend towards using contract labor…
Difference Between California’s EEOC and DFEH
The main difference between California's EEOC and DFEH is that the EEOC is a federal agency enforcing nationwide anti-discrimination laws, while the DFEH is a state-level agency specifically for California's anti-discrimination laws. The DFEH offers more comprehensive protections, covers businesses with five or more employees…
California Paid Sick Leave Law – All You Need to Know
In California, employees must work for an employer for at least 90 consecutive calendar days and have worked at least 30 shifts within those 3 months to be eligible for paid sick leave. Once eligible, employees receive a minimum of 24 hours (or three full…
Can an Employer Deny Unpaid Time Off in California?
An employer in California can deny unpaid time off requests, except when the reason for the leave is protected under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). These specific laws allow employees to take unpaid time off for…
Can I Sue My Employer for Firing Me Under False Accusations in California?
Yes, you can sue your employer for firing you under false accusations in California. The law categorizes termination based on false accusations as wrongful termination, which allows you to take legal action to recover losses. This is because while employers can fire employees without cause,…
California 4-Hour Minimum Shift Law: All You Need to Know
The California 4-hour minimum shift law, also known as the reporting time pay law, requires employers to compensate employees for at least half of their scheduled hours if they report to work but are sent home early or are not needed for their full shift.…
More changes to CA’s controversial independent contractor law
As soon as California passed the landmark law known as AB 5, people were discussing changes. The goal of AB 5, according to its supporters, was to crack down on misclassification by instituting a much stricter definition of what it means to be an independent…
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