Navigating the legal elements of employment can be complex. This webpage supplies a summary of some necessary staff member rights and resources to help you understand your alternatives.
Understanding Your Employee Rights
As a worker, you have certain legal protections in place to make sure a fair and safe work environment. These rights cover different aspects of your employment, consisting of:
Wage and Hour Lawyer: You are entitled to be paid minimum wage for all hours worked, and overtime pay for going beyond a set variety of hours per week (typically 40). Meal and rest breaks may also be compensated depending upon your area and company.
Sexual Harassment: Unwanted sexual advances unfortunately continues to effect individuals of all genders and gender identifications. The Employment Lawyers Group has attempted and managed lots of cases for males and females involving unwanted sexual touching, sexual assault, sexual battery, quid pro quo sexual harassment done by supervisors, supervisors, and company owner. These days numerous unwanted sexual advances cases likewise involve unwanted text and obscene photos sent to cellphones. Our work consists of appeals concerning unwanted sexual advances and employment life changing settlements.
Discrimination and Harassment: Federal and employment state laws forbid discrimination based upon race, color, faith, sex (including pregnancy), nationwide origin, disability, age (40 or older), or genetic information. This includes security from harassment of any kind.
Reasonable Accommodation: If you have a recorded medical condition, your company might be required to offer reasonable lodgings to enable you to perform your task duties. Examples include versatile work schedules, modified devices, or available offices. However, a lot of cases filed in court for employers refusing to reasonably accommodate employees includes companies who fired a worker for not coming back to work when they are out on an impairment, FMLA, or pregnancy leave. Allowing time off for a staff member's medical condition and treatment are basic sensible lodgings many companies do not correctly handle.
Workplace Safety: Your employer has a legal obligation to offer a safe workplace free from recognized threats. This includes adhering to security policies and providing appropriate training for workers.
Wrongful Termination: Wrongful termination is a whistle blower tort. If a staff member grumbles about their company doing something illegal and they are terminated that may be wrongful termination. Retaliation leading to a task termination is wrongful termination if it occurs because the staff member exercised statutory legal rights and was retaliated for exercising those rights. Examples consist of task terminations due to the employee filing a wage claim, declining sexual harassment, reporting a company to OSHA, internally grumbling to management or refusing to participate in illegal activities, taking a lawfully safeguarded leave of absence for cancer, impairment, FMLA, or pregnancy. Firing an employee due to an immutable particular such as gender, race, or faith is likewise wrongful termination. Wrongful discharge IS NOT about unreasonable job terminations staff members do not agree with that do not include one of the above.
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If you are injured or become ill due to your work, employee's payment advantages might be available to cover medical expenditures and lost incomes. However, employee's settlement is the exclusive solution for the majority of workplace injuries, implying you typically can not sue your company straight.
There might be restricted exceptions where legal action against a company is possible. Consulting with a work attorney is suggested to determine if your situation falls under among these exceptions, such as wrongful termination for filing a wage claim or severe work environment security infractions.
Disclaimer: This website provides general details just and should not be interpreted as legal advice. If you have specific questions or concerns about your employment rights, it's constantly best to consult with a certified lawyer.
Employment Lawyers Group Case Results (Some)
$18,402,868 Jury decision for male aesthetically bugged and subject to crude comments by a female supervisor
$1,150,000 Unpaid commissions of 2 plaintiffs
$875,000 For 4 oil field service market employees whose times worked were not tape-recorded on timesheets and were on-call
$800,000 Controlled wait class action settlement
$800,000 For mis-classified independent professionals
$775,000 For little class action of employees not enabled meal breaks or cellular phone reimbursements while looking after dependent adults
$750,000 Disability discrimination settlement for worker who had heart problems
$750,000 Sub-Minimum wage class action settlement
$675,000 Sexual harassment in a storage facility
$672,500 For sexual harassment at a truck stop
$539,584 Myles v. Wellpoint Termination of Employment Due to Disability and Workers Compensation Injury
$510,000 Class action settlement of 125 workers on overtime claims
$500,000 Unpaid days of work to 4 oil well workers
$490,000 For sex and age discrimination of ladies
$465,000 Unwanted sexual advances at a gasoline station
$460,000 Unpaid hours of work for gatekeeper & PAGA Violations
$450,000 Settlement for 2 on-call employees
$450,000 Paystub violations
$450,000 Being on regulated standby
$430,000 Settlement in 2024 dollars for a Los Angeles storage facility worker required to break her medical constraints imposed by pregnancy
$400,000 Recovery following arbitration win for 4 staff members who worked off the clock
$400,000 Following arbitration win for meal & rest breaks for 3 staff members
$400,000 Off-the-clock work for 5 employees
$365,000 Vasquez v. Del Rio Sanitarium Pregnancy Discrimination Case - Following Jury Trial & Appeal
$365,000 Sexual harassment of a shipment driver
$365,000 After offender lost their appeal - pregnancy case - Jury Trial
$360,000 For missed meal and rest breaks, and overtime for 3 staff members, and PAGA penalties for employment less than 25
$350,000 To 2 employees in holiday rental business working off-the-clock overtime
$350,000 Due to fixed benefit pay not figured into overtime for a directional driller
$350,000 For controlled standby and overtime for one worker
$350,000 Nurse mis-classified as independent contractor who was on-call
$350,000 For directional driller whose fixed rate benefits were not computed into his overtime rate
$350,000 For 2 workers in the holiday rental company who worked off-the-clock, on-call & PAGA
$350,000 For prevailing wage and paystub itemizations
$315,000 Unwanted sexual advances of a lesbian female by straight man
$315,000 Unwanted sexual advances of a pizza delivery driver
$307,345 For 2 healthcare facility staff members oncall
$305,000 Wrongful termination of 2 sales individuals
$305,000 For 2 IT difficulty shooters oncall at a significant hospital
$302,000 Controlled standby spend for two telecommunication employees in a healthcare facility
$300,000 Verdict of punitive damages in wrongful termination case due to employee's rejection to work without rest breaks
$300,000 Post trial decision for wrongful termination settlement and minor rest break offenses
$300,000 Multiple Worker Claims for Unpaid Wages for Oil Gauge and Calibration Inspectors on Docked Coastal Vessels
$275,000 Unpaid minimum wage, overtime double and double time due to on call work for two professionals at a radio/television station
$270,000 Unwanted sexual advances & work termination
$260,000 For regulated stand by pay
$260,000 For sexual harassment in a grocery store
$250,000 For 2 oil field service specialists not paid overtime
$250,000 For radiology service technician on-call and small PAGA group
$250,000 For whistle-blower about unpaid overtime
$246,000 Breach of fiduciary responsibility arbitration award involving disability discrimination
$232,000 Male on male unwanted sexual advances won at a binding arbitration
$225,000 Unwanted sexual advances of a Waitress (No Termination Involved)
$225,000 For 2 kitchen area workers sexually bugged
$225,000 Unwanted sexual advances by shop customers
$206,151 Larson v. VXI Same Sex Sexual Harassment
$205,000 Unpaid wages, overtime, labor code section 2699 charges- arbitration award for several complainants
$205,000 For several plaintiffs
$200,000 For on-call work, retaliation, forced to quit gatekeeper
$200,000 For dominating wage and FMLA infractions
$200,000 For PAGA violations and unwanted sexual advances
$200,000 Race Discrimination towards Latinos
$200,000 Acts of unwanted sexual advances by CEO
$200,000 For an employee fired due to medical problems & grievances of discrimination
$200,000 For a sales woman in her 60s, age discrimination
$195,000 For Whistle Blower
$193,500 Unwanted sexual advances by a signed up sex culprit
$193,250 Sexual harassment by a sex wrongdoer
$190,000 Unwanted sexual advances in the medical coding market
$190,000 Sexual harassment without a task termination
$185,857 Jewish lawyer victimized due to religious beliefs
$185,000 For sexual harassment of a lady 35 years older than the harasser
$182,500 Fired throughout cancer treatment
$180,000 Cancer discrimination and termination due to healing from cancer
$180,000 Controlled standby pay claims of oil field service employee
$180,000 Controlled standby pay
$175,000 Unwanted sexual advances lawsuit
$175,000 PAGA settlement due to missed out on meal and rest breaks in a hotel's cooking areas
$175,000 Failure to pay minimum wage
$175,000 Unpaid overtime of 2 limo drivers of a small business
$175,000 Minor concerns of pregnancy discrimination in junk food restaurant, absence of rest breaks
$175,000 Wrongful Termination of Financial Whistleblower
$175,000 PAGA settlement resort staff who worked off-the-clock
$174,250 Missed meal and rest breaks
$170,000 Off the clock work by nonexempt administrator at non-profit
$166,250 Racial harassment at a huge box store
$165,000 Wrongful termination and employment whistleblower
$165,000 For a vehicle dealership manager rejected baby bonding and CFRA Leave
$162,500 Failure to pay commissions, retaliation when went to Labor Board
$162,000 Unwanted sexual advances at a resident's Association
$160,000 For 3 oil field staff members denied meal breaks, worked off-the-clock
$160,000 Unwanted sexual advances by supervisors of automobile lot
$160,000 Auto dealership unwanted sexual advances by text message
$155,000 Whistle blower at construction site
$153,000 Camarillo female demeaned due to her Christianity
$150,000 Unwanted sexual advances to two kitchen area workers at a resort
$150,000 Race harassment at an oil refinery
$150,000 Wrongful termination of social employee reporting client abuse
$150,000 Mental disability & termination of CFO
$150,000 Cancer discrimination & wrongful termination of waitress
$150,000 Disability discrimination & termination
$150,000 Wrongful termination of C.N.A. in assisted living facility who blew whistle
$150,000 Job Termination of salesperson with cancer
$150,000 Settlement for failure to restore after maternity leave
$150,000 Cancer discrimination & termination of waitress Wrongful Termination of Site Manager
$150,000 Unwanted sexual advances of an eight-teen year old restaurant employee
$150,000 Unwanted sexual advances by a supervisor of an adult day care program
$150,000 Job not held open during cancer treatment
$150,000 CNA grumbled about rats
$150,000 Forced to quit due to unwanted sexual advances
$145,000 Settlement for a workplace supervisor whose Northridge employer would not permit her to take leave from work due to pregnancy
$140,000 Off-the-clock work, breach of agreement to pay per hour wage to nurse
$140,000 Not Accommodated and Fired for Mental Disability Leave
$137,930 Robinson v. Mantra - Binding Arbitration Award in a Pregnancy Discriminations
$137,500 Failure to reinstate after FMLA
$135,000 Aerospace executive whistle blower
$130,000 Employee fired for refusing to falsify records in suit
$127,500 Illegally required medical examination adversely affecting a handicapped employee
$127,500 Wrongfully terminated motorist who grumbled his truck was unsafe
$127,450 Improper query about medical abilities
$125,450 Retail sales supervisor ended after complaining about nationwide origin harassment by coworker
$125,000 Minor unwanted sexual advances
$125,000 Unwanted sexual advances at a fast food restaurant
$125,000 Sexual harassment of a drug counselor
$125,000 Pregnancy discrimination case & wrongful termination -
$125,000 Wrongful termination
$125,000 Wrongful termination & minor labor code offenses
$125,000 Breach of agreement, employment unpaid wages in the web industry
$125,000 For worker who quit after being misclassified and not receiving overtime.
$125,000 Pregnancy discrimination & termination
$125,000 Non-payment of earnings to CEO
$125,000 Age discrimination throughout layoff
$125,000 High tech employer stopped paying the agreed to sum
$120,000 Unpaid wages for tow truck chauffeurs
$120,000 Sexually bothered maintenance manager by another male
$120,000 Insurance professional terminated for taking California Family Care Leave (FMLA)
$120,000 Racial Discrimination of a warehouse employee
$120,000 Male on male unwanted sexual advances Unpaid wages, overtime, labor code section 2699 penalties- arbitration award of over
$120,000 For race discrimination
$117,702 Disability discrimination, FMLA, and termination of $10.00 an hour staff member in binding arbitration
$117,500 Pregnancy discrimination & termination ($24,000 loss of incomes)
$115,616 Signal Hill Hindu made enjoyable of due to his faith
$115,000 Pregnancy discrimination & termination of consumer service staff member
$115,000 Unwanted sexual advances of cars and truck saleswoman minor unpaid commissions
$115,000 Unwanted sexual advances of car saleswoman & small unpaid commissions
$112,023 Wrongful termination of social employee during trial
$110,000 (small lost salaries) Cancer discrimination & work termination
$109,500 Unpaid dominating salaries for 2 workers of a little company
$107,500 Wrongfully terminated security manager who let his subordinates know they had rights to meal breaks
$105,500 Unwanted sexual advances of a lesbian aerospace employee by a guy who desired to turn her straight
$105,000 Overtime due computer professional
$105,000 Fired After Depression Leave
$103,145 Refusal to accommodate pregnant warehouse worker
$102,500 Family Care Leave Act offenses & termination ($20,000 loss of incomes)
$102,500 Sexual harassment of a janitor
$102,500 Unwanted sexual advances of a waitress (no termination involved)
$101,500 Sexual harassment of a janitor
$100,850 Sexual harassment by restaurant supervisor
$100,000 Termination of Mechanic's Employment in Violation of California Family Rights Act (California FMLA)
$100,000 Wrongful termination of ambulance motorist who blew the whistle
$100,000 Fired Due to Age of FMLA Leave
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