You weren’t fired from your job. However, you feel like you were pushed out. Your manager was uncommunicative to the point where it was nearly impossible to do your job. You weren’t told about important meetings. Colleagues were unpleasant and sometimes just plain...
Santa Barbara Employment Law Blog
Common causes of wage theft in California
When you work, you expect to receive a fair wage. This amount is determined when you are hired and may be incrementally increased for the duration of your employment. While this is the expectation, it’s not always how things work out. More and more California workers...
Write-ups can be a warning sign of employer retaliation
Many employers with numerous workers have progressive discipline policies or at least a written discipline policy. Before they take any adverse actions against a worker, the company will address the problems affecting their employment, likely through the human...
Identifying pregnancy discrimination at your workplace
Pregnancy discrimination is an unfortunate situation many women across the country find themselves in. Your employer might start relegating or diminishing your importance to the organization because of pregnancy, and your career could be negatively affected. In such a...
It isn’t “joking” if you no longer feel like going to work
Many people across California spend most of their week in the workplace. The majority of jobs come with at least some sort of pressure, and the occasional joke can ease some tension and make the day go by a lot quicker. Is there a line though? Can a joke ever become...
Living in the age of digital sexual harassment
Sexual harassment in the workplace has certainly changed over the last two decades, as we've moved into the digital age. Previously, most of these encounters had to take place in person and you would have verbal exchanges, such as lewd comments made by a boss or...
What does at-will employment mean for the wrongfully terminated?
Companies have obligations to the people that they employ, and their workers have legal obligations to the business. Both state law and employment contracts help to clarify the specific obligation the worker has to the business that employs them and vice versa. ...
California has first-of-its-kind law to protect warehouse workers
As we’ve discussed previously, Amazon has come under scrutiny and been the subject of lawsuits for the conditions in which its warehouse employees have been required to work. This includes the alleged inability in some cases to take restroom breaks due to unreasonable...
Changes to your time in and out at work could be wage theft
When you get to work every day, you may need to physically punch a paper if your employer still uses a physical time clock. You may need to input your personal employee information in a specialized computer terminal if they use a digital timekeeping system. You then...
Dress codes at work can be a subtle form of discrimination
Sometimes, workplace racial discrimination is obvious. A company refuses to hire people from certain backgrounds or only promotes people from one racial group. A review of their actions over the course of several months or years will reveal an obvious trend. However,...