Los Angeles Employee Rights Lawyer

Navigating the legal elements of employment can be intricate. This web page provides an overview of some necessary staff member rights and resources to help you understand your options.

Understanding Your Employee Rights

As a staff member, you have specific legal protections in place to make sure a fair and safe work environment. These rights cover numerous elements of your work, including:

Wage and Hour Lawyer: You are entitled to be paid base pay for all hours worked, and overtime spend for surpassing a set variety of hours per week (normally 40). Meal and rest breaks may likewise be compensated depending upon your area and company. Sexual Harassment: Unwanted sexual advances regrettably continues to effect individuals of all genders and gender recognitions. The Employment Lawyers Group has attempted and handled lots of cases for guys and ladies involving undesirable sexual touching, sexual assault, sexual battery, quid professional quo unwanted sexual advances done by managers, managers, and entrepreneur. These days numerous sexual harassment cases likewise involve unwanted text messages and obscene images sent out to mobile phones. Our work consists of appeals concerning unwanted sexual advances and life changing settlements. Discrimination and Harassment: Federal and state laws forbid discrimination based upon race, color, religious beliefs, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, impairment, age (40 or older), or hereditary details. This consists of defense from harassment of any kind. Reasonable Accommodation: If you have a documented medical condition, your company may be required to supply reasonable lodgings to permit you to perform your task tasks. Examples include flexible work schedules, customized devices, or accessible work spaces. However, many cases submitted in court for companies refusing to reasonably accommodate workers includes employers who fired an employee for not returning to work when they are out on a disability, FMLA, or pregnancy leave. Allowing time off for an employee's medical condition and treatment are essential sensible lodgings lots of companies do not appropriately handle. Workplace Safety: Your company has a legal responsibility to supply a safe workplace devoid of recognized dangers. This consists of sticking to security guidelines and supplying appropriate training for staff members. Wrongful Termination: Wrongful termination is a whistle blower tort. If an employee grumbles about their company doing something prohibited and they are terminated that might be wrongful termination. Retaliation leading to a task termination is wrongful termination if it happens since the worker exercised statutory legal rights and was struck back for working out those rights. Examples include task terminations due to the worker filing a wage claim, refusing sexual harassment, reporting a company to OSHA, internally complaining to management or refusing to participate in unlawful activities, taking a lawfully protected leave of absence for cancer, disability, 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 task terminations staff members do not concur with that do not include among the above.

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Employment Lawyer For Workers Compensation

If you are injured or become ill due to your work, employee's payment advantages may be available to cover medical expenditures and lost wages. However, employee's settlement is the exclusive solution for a lot of workplace injuries, implying you generally can not sue your company straight.

There might be limited exceptions where legal action against an employer is possible. Consulting with a work lawyer is recommended to figure out if your circumstance falls under among these exceptions, such as wrongful termination for submitting a wage claim or severe office safety violations.

Disclaimer: This webpage provides general information just and needs to not be interpreted as legal advice. If you have particular questions or issues about your work rights, it's constantly best to seek advice from a qualified attorney.

Employment Lawyers Group Case Results (Some)

$18,402,868 Jury decision for male visually bugged and subject to unrefined comments by a female supervisor

$1,150,000 Unpaid commissions of two plaintiffs

$875,000 For employment 4 oil field service industry employees whose times worked were not tape-recorded on timesheets and were on-call

$800,000 Controlled stand by class action settlement

$800,000 For mis-classified independent contractors

$775,000 For little class action of workers not permitted meal breaks or cell phone repayments while looking after dependent adults

$750,000 Disability discrimination settlement for staff member who had heart problems

$750,000 Sub-Minimum wage class action settlement

$675,000 Unwanted sexual advances in a warehouse

$672,500 For unwanted sexual advances 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 rig employees

$490,000 For sex and employment age discrimination of women

$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 workers

$450,000 Paystub infractions

$450,000 Being on controlled standby

$430,000 Settlement in 2024 dollars for a Los Angeles storage facility employee required to break her medical limitations imposed by pregnancy

$400,000 Recovery following arbitration win for 4 workers who sweated off the clock

$400,000 Following arbitration win for meal & rest breaks for 3 staff members

$400,000 Off-the-clock work for 5 workers

$365,000 Vasquez v. Del Rio Sanitarium Pregnancy Discrimination Case - Following Jury Trial & Appeal

$365,000 Sexual harassment of a delivery motorist

$365,000 After defendant lost their appeal - pregnancy case - Jury Trial

$360,000 For missed out on meal and rest breaks, and overtime for 3 staff members, and PAGA penalties for less than 25

$350,000 To 2 employees in trip rental business working off-the-clock overtime

$350,000 Due to repaired perk pay not figured into overtime for a directional driller

$350,000 For regulated standby and overtime for one staff member

$350,000 Nurse mis-classified as independent professional who was on-call

$350,000 For directional driller whose fixed rate perks were not computed into his overtime rate

$350,000 For 2 workers in the vacation rental business 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 male

$315,000 Unwanted sexual advances of a pizza shipment motorist

$307,345 For 2 medical facility employees oncall

$305,000 Wrongful termination of 2 sales individuals

$305,000 For 2 IT problem shooters oncall at a major medical facility

$302,000 Controlled standby pay for two telecommunication employees in a hospital

$300,000 Verdict of punitive damages in wrongful termination case due to employee's refusal to work without rest breaks

$300,000 Post trial decision for wrongful termination settlement and small rest break infractions

$300,000 Multiple Worker Claims for Unpaid Wages for Oil Gauge and Calibration Inspectors on Docked Coastal Vessels

$275,000 Unpaid base pay, overtime double and double time due to on call work for 2 service technicians at a radio/television station

$270,000 Sexual harassment & employment termination

$260,000 For employment regulated wait pay

$260,000 For unwanted sexual advances in a grocery store

$250,000 For 2 oil field service professionals not paid overtime

$250,000 For radiology professional on-call and small PAGA group

$250,000 For whistle-blower about overdue overtime

$246,000 Breach of fiduciary responsibility arbitration award including impairment discrimination

$232,000 Male on male sexual harassment won at a binding arbitration

$225,000 Unwanted sexual advances of a Waitress (No Termination Involved)

$225,000 For 2 cooking area employees sexually bothered

$225,000 Sexual harassment by store customers

$206,151 Larson v. VXI Same Sex Sexual Harassment

$205,000 Unpaid salaries, overtime, labor code area 2699 penalties- arbitration award for numerous plaintiffs

$205,000 For several complainants

$200,000 For on-call work, retaliation, required to quit gatekeeper

$200,000 For dominating wage and FMLA offenses

$200,000 For PAGA offenses and unwanted sexual advances

$200,000 Race Discrimination towards Latinos

$200,000 Acts of sexual harassment by CEO

$200,000 For an employee fired due to medical problems & complaints of discrimination

$200,000 For a sales lady in her 60s, age discrimination

$195,000 For Whistle Blower

$193,500 Unwanted sexual advances by a registered sex wrongdoer

$193,250 Unwanted sexual advances by a sex culprit

$190,000 Sexual Harassment in the medical coding market

$190,000 Sexual harassment without a job termination

$185,857 Jewish legal representative discriminated versus due to religion

$185,000 For unwanted sexual advances of a woman 35 years older than the harasser

$182,500 Fired during cancer treatment

$180,000 Cancer discrimination and termination due to recovery from cancer

$180,000 Controlled standby pay claims of oil field service worker

$180,000 Controlled standby pay

$175,000 Unwanted sexual advances claim

$175,000 PAGA settlement due to missed out on meal and rest breaks in a hotel's kitchens

$175,000 Failure to pay base pay

$175,000 Unpaid overtime of 2 limo chauffeurs of a little company

$175,000 Minor problems of pregnancy discrimination in quick food restaurant, absence of rest breaks

$175,000 Wrongful Termination of Financial Whistleblower

$175,000 PAGA settlement resort personnel 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 shop

$165,000 Wrongful termination and whistleblower

$165,000 For an automobile dealer supervisor denied infant bonding and CFRA Leave

$162,500 Failure to pay commissions, retaliation when went to Labor Board

$162,000 Sexual harassment at a resident's Association

$160,000 For 3 oil field employees denied meal breaks, worked off-the-clock

$160,000 Unwanted sexual advances by managers of car lot

$160,000 Auto dealership unwanted sexual advances by text message

$155,000 Whistle blower at construction site

$153,000 Camarillo lady demeaned due to her Christianity

$150,000 Unwanted sexual advances to two kitchen workers at a resort

$150,000 Race harassment at an oil refinery

$150,000 Wrongful termination of social worker 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 nursing home who blew whistle

$150,000 Job Termination of sales representative with cancer

$150,000 Settlement for failure to renew after maternity leave

$150,000 Cancer discrimination & termination of waitress Wrongful Termination of Site Manager

$150,000 Sexual harassment of an eight-teen year old restaurant worker

$150,000 Unwanted sexual advances by a manager of an adult daycare program

$150,000 Job not held open during cancer treatment

$150,000 CNA grumbled about rats

$150,000 Forced to give up due to sexual harassment

$145,000 Settlement for a workplace supervisor whose Northridge company would not enable her to depart 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 restore after FMLA

$135,000 Aerospace executive whistle blower

$130,000 Employee fired for declining to falsify records in claim

$127,500 Illegally needed medical checkup adversely impacting a disabled staff member

$127,500 Wrongfully terminated motorist who complained his truck was risky

$127,450 Improper questions about medical abilities

$125,450 Retail sales supervisor terminated after grumbling about national origin harassment by colleague

$125,000 Minor unwanted sexual advances

$125,000 Sexual harassment at a quick food dining establishment

$125,000 Sexual harassment of a drug therapist

$125,000 Pregnancy discrimination case & wrongful termination -

$125,000 Wrongful termination

$125,000 Wrongful termination & minor labor code violations

$125,000 Breach of contract, overdue earnings in the web industry

$125,000 For staff member who quit after being misclassified and not receiving overtime.

$125,000 Pregnancy discrimination & termination

$125,000 Non-payment of wages to CEO

$125,000 Age discrimination during layoff

$125,000 High tech employer stopped paying the agreed to sum

$120,000 Unpaid earnings for tow truck motorists

$120,000 Sexually pestered maintenance manager by another male

$120,000 Insurance expert terminated for taking California Family Care Leave (FMLA)

$120,000 Racial Discrimination of a storage facility employee

$120,000 Male on male unwanted sexual advances Unpaid earnings, overtime, labor code section 2699 charges- 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 profits)

$115,616 Signal Hill Hindu teased due to his faith

$115,000 Pregnancy discrimination & termination of customer support employee

$115,000 Sexual harassment of automobile saleswoman minor unpaid commissions

$115,000 Sexual harassment of car saleswoman & minor overdue commissions

$112,023 Wrongful termination of social worker throughout trial

$110,000 (small lost earnings) Cancer discrimination & work termination

$109,500 Unpaid dominating wages for 2 workers of a small business

$107,500 Wrongfully terminated security supervisor who let his subordinates know they had rights to meal breaks

$105,500 Sexual harassment of a lesbian aerospace worker by a guy who wanted to turn her straight

$105,000 Overtime due computer professional

$105,000 Fired After Depression Leave

$103,145 Refusal to accommodate pregnant warehouse employee

$102,500 Family Care Leave Act offenses & ($20,000 loss of profits)

$102,500 Sexual harassment of a janitor

$102,500 Unwanted sexual advances of a waitress (no termination included)

$101,500 Unwanted sexual advances of a janitor

$100,850 Unwanted sexual advances 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 driver who blew the whistle

$100,000 Fired Due to Age of FMLA Leave

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