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Is Office Dating a Type of Sexual Harassment?

Is Office Dating a Type of Sexual Harassment?

Despite the existence of entire television shows centered around office dating relationships, some businesses will prohibit dating between employees.


Wage Theft Outranks All Other American Theft

Wage Theft Outranks All Other American Theft

When most people think about common types of theft, they think of bank robberies or home invasions.


Understanding California’s Prevailing Wage Law

Understanding California’s Prevailing Wage Law

For close to 100 years, California has had a prevailing wage law that sets the minimum wage that workers must be paid if they are working on a construction project that’s paid for, at least in part, with federal, state and/or local government funding.


Three Ways a Hostile Work Environment Can Hurt Your Health

Three Ways a Hostile Work Environment Can Hurt Your Health

Sexual harassment isn’t always about flirtation or a supervisor soliciting you. Sometimes the sexual harassment a worker experiences on the job involves a hostile work environment.


Why Don’t People Always Report Sexual Harassment?

Why Don’t People Always Report Sexual Harassment?

One thing that you find when sexual harassment begins to come to light is that people may not have reported it as often as you would’ve assumed.


What Constitutes Wrongful Termination?

What Constitutes Wrongful Termination?

As with many other jurisdictions across the US, California is an at-will employment state. Generally, this means that employers can let go of workers without providing them with a reason. This can also provide employees with a little more flexibility in terms of moving from one job to another.


Sexual Harassment Often Has Nothing to Do with Attraction

Sexual Harassment Often Has Nothing to Do with Attraction

There are certainly cases in which sexual harassment does have to do with an attraction between the two parties – or at least a one-way attraction.


Do California Employers Always Need to Pay On-Call Employees?

Do California Employers Always Need to Pay On-Call Employees?

Some employers need to have employees on call so they can have them report in for work when they’re needed.


Do Your Tips Count Toward Minimum Wage?

Do Your Tips Count Toward Minimum Wage?

You recently moved to California and you got a job in which you collect tips. Perhaps you work at a cafe, a restaurant or a bar.


Three Ways Employers Discriminate Against Breastfeeding Employees

Three Ways Employers Discriminate Against Breastfeeding Employees

The medical implications of having a child do not end after the birth of the baby. Instead, the new mother will likely have health implications from her pregnancy for a month following labor.