Are You Entitled to Unemployment Benefits? You have received notice of termination from employment. The first questions that come to mind for many people are “how am I going to pay my bills?” and “will ...
$795,000 Class Action Settlement obtained by Goyette & Associates for County Employees On October 18, 2016 Judge Alan Perkins in the Sacramento County Superior Court complex litigation Department granted ...
Goyette & Associates has reached a settlement agreement with the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) on behalf of an employee who filed a claim alleging that CalHR wrongfully collected salary earned and collection of ...
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed production workers to proceed as a group in a lawsuit against the film company Fox Searchlight, and deemed some of them to be employees rather than interns under federal ...
(Reuters) - A trio of cases before the California Supreme Court will clarify how it will apply a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting class action arbitration to employment contracts. The three cases ...
An employee who was fired after she exhausted all of her leave under the Pregnancy Disability Leave Law (“PDLL”) brought a lawsuit against her former employer for discrimination and retaliation under the California Fair Employment ...
YOU ARE CLASSIFIED AS AN ‘EXEMPT’ SALARIED EMPLOYEE AND ARE TOLD YOU DO NOT QUALIFY FOR OVERTIME PAY; HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS IS CORRECT? As strange as it may sound, the ‘classification’ by the ...
California Labor Codes Section 1198.5 requires employers to provide access and inspection of personnel files to all current and prior employees, with the exception of Public Safety Officers whose rights related to personnel files are ...
Filing a Decertification Petition with PERB A group of employees who intend to change their current representation must first determine if the public employer has what is commonly referred to as an Employer/Employee Relations Order, ...
What Do I Do If I’m Not Getting Paid Overtime? (and what does the Employer do if any employee may be owed Overtime Pay) In California, non-exempt hourly employees must be paid overtime for hours ...