If you live in the Los Angeles area, then you are no stranger to the high cost of living. Your credentials enable you to work in a financially rewarding career. As much as you cherish your job and the financial security it has proved, you suspect that your employer has not paid you all your wages.
What can I do if I believe my employer owes me unpaid wages?
$1.5 million awarded to doctor who faced retaliation
Retaliatory acts in any walk of life can definitely have profound impacts on victims. However, when retaliation occurs in the workplace, the victim's financial and emotional well-being are directly affected. Its effects can be absolutely devastating. California and other states have laws that protect employees from retaliation. A doctor in another state was allegedly fired as a retaliatory act and she was awarded compensation from a lawsuit that she had filed.
Discrimination in the workplace is not only wrong but illegal
In California and across the country, significant progress has been made for the advancement of rights in the workplace. However, even in today's more progressive society, things like discrimination continue to happen at an alarming rate. Discrimination in any form is very wrong and can have far-reaching impacts, both financially and psychologically. What can be done when discrimination is experienced in the workplace? Legal action can be pursued.
Coal miner endures retaliation for workers' compensation claim
Significant injuries can result in lost wages due to time away from work. Fortunately, full-time employees in California and across the country are entitled to helpful benefits that can protect them financially and medically when injuries are suffered at work. Workers' compensation is a type of insurance that provides wages and medical benefits to workers that have been injured on the job. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for some employers to retaliate against employees for using benefits such as workers' compensation. A man in another state filed a lawsuit after he claims he suffered retaliation for using workers' compensation benefits.
Proving employment retaliation in California
Like most states, California generally follows the at-will model of employment, which allows both employer and employee to terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason. However, the law sets forth several important exceptions to this rule.
Medical examiner faced retaliation for reporting harassment
Even in today's progressive society, harassment and discrimination continue to occur in the workplace. Harassment can take on many forms, including verbal comments and threatening behavior based a person's race, sex or religion. Harassment and discrimination in the workplace is morally wrong and also illegal in California and across the country. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for employees to face retaliation after reporting harassment and discrimination. This allegedly happened to a woman in another state, and she filed a lawsuit.
