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Why Do You Enjoy Working as an Employment Lawyer?
The field of employment law can be a fulfilling one. In this video, California employment attorney Brian Kesluk explains why he enjoys his job as an employment lawyer. For more information, call (310)997-4431. Employment law always interested me because it’s a great fight to...
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Do Most Cases Settle Before They Reach the Courtroom?
Most cases settle before court. Again, the employer has certain risks, that in the time and expense of litigation they could be hit with a large jury verdict. In the labor and employment sphere, often many of the statutes that regulate employee-employer relations also allow for t...
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How Do I Fight Hourly and Salary Wage Issues as an Independent Contractor?
One of the biggest things that we’ve seen over the last decade is employers attempting to classify its actual employees as independent contractors. Employers do this for a number of reasons. Bottom line, it’s cheaper. They don’t have to pay workers’ compensation, they don’t have ...
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How Can Someone Know If They Should Be Paid Overtime, Over Salary, For Certain Work?
In order to determine if someone is entitled to overtime or not, you have to examine what their job function is. If their job function is truly managing, such as reviewing performance reviews, handling everyone’s scheduling, giving out discipline, hiring employees, making decisio...
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What Should I Do If I Feel I’m Being Wrongfully Terminated?
I would say the number one most important thing to do is to document what is occurring as well as call an attorney. Our firm is a firm, we have free consultations, and talk to someone about what your legal rights are because I think one of the most important things in life, in ge...
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What is Wrongful Termination?
Wrongful termination is when an employer fires an employee because for an illegal reason. In the state of California, we are an at-will state, so generally an employer can fire somebody for any reason that they want or no reason at all as long as it’s not an illegal reason, such ...
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What Can’t an Employer Ask in an Interview?
People ask us all the time, in an interview, can I be asked about my religion? Can I be asked about my national origin? The answer’s usually no. That’s usually an indicator of discrimination. There are certain circumstances where some businesses or companies have to ask questions...
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What to Know About Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Employees should be able to work without fear of sexual harassment from a coworker or supervisor. It is important to recognize that sexual harassment in the workplace is not just inappropriate and offensive. It is also a federal crime. Harassment at work can occur between many...
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What Benefits Does California Workers’ Comp Provide?
No one goes to work in the morning intending to injure themselves. Unfortunately, some workplaces are just more dangerous than others — and injuries happen whether we plan them or not. On the plus side, California workers’ comp benefits exist to make these injuries as financia...
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Is Racial Workplace Discrimination Getting Worse?
If you have read or watched the news at all in the past few years, it seems that overall racism and racial discrimination has been getting worse in our country. Recently, it appears that men and women of all different kinds of racial minorities have been more intensely targete...
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What Can I Do After Being Sexually Assaulted in the Workplace?
The #MeToo movement shows that sexual harassment is now one of the leading issues experienced in U. S. workplaces. California law defines two different types of sexual harassment: quid pro quo and hostile work environment. With quid pro quo, a supervisor may ask you to perfor...
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How Compliance With California Employment Law Is Affected By Wildfires
As we approach the summer season, many Californians are bracing themselves for deadly wildfires. The frequency and intensity of recent fires has put many Los Angeles residents on edge. Thousands of people will be forced to leave their homes and take time away from work. Fortun...
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