by Vonder Haar Law Offices | Sep 16, 2014 | Business Law, Disability Discrimination, Employment Law, Litigation, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Harassment, Wrongful Termination
Constructive Termination In The Workplace Discrimination and sexual harassment are illegal. So is retaliating against an employee for reporting discrimination, sexual harassment, or engaging in protected behavior, like complaining about not getting paid correctly....
by Vonder Haar Law Offices | Sep 11, 2014 | Business Law, Employment Law
Occasionally, political affiliations, issues and views can be so intense that they create division and extreme disagreement. California’s politically charged environment can spillover into the workplace and cause problems. It’s called political discrimination...
by Vonder Haar Law Offices | Sep 2, 2014 | Business Law, Disability Discrimination, Employment Law
Disability discrimination lawyers will be the first to tell you: The Employer Must Provide A Reasonable Accommodation To A Disabled Employee. The law requires an employer to provide “reasonable accommodations” to an employee with a known physical or mental disability....
by Vonder Haar Law Offices | Aug 21, 2014 | Business Law, Employment Law, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Harassment, Wrongful Termination
As a sexual harassment lawyer, I am frequently asked: “Who is liable?” Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination based on the sex of the victim and is prohibited under federal law and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (HEFA). FEHA currently...
by Vonder Haar Law Offices | Aug 14, 2014 | Business Law, Employment Law
It would seem pretty obvious that sick leave is time that you can take off work and still get paid when you are too sick to go to work. Sick time typically accrues every week or month in small increments up to a maximum of one or two weeks a year. The official...
by Vonder Haar Law Offices | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Law, Employment Law, Wage and Hour Law
Part 1: California Wage and Hour Laws can be found here. In addition to the three common requirements that an Executive, Administrative, or Professional Employee must have, each of these three “white-collar” classifications have their own specific work or duties the...
