Blog Category - Employment Laws Page 2

Aug

How Much Does it Cost to Hire an Employment Attorney?

Thankfully at Kesluk, Silverstein, Jacob & Morrison, P. C. , we basically pride ourselves on the fact that I would say 90 to 95% of our cases are handled on a contingent fee basis, which means that the client calling me who’s, God forbid, lost his job. He doesn’t have the as...

Aug

When Can My Employer Drug Test Me?

As an employee at your workplace, you have certain privacy and personal rights, but your employer also has certain rights when it comes to ensuring the safety of the workplace. Many employees and job applicants will be required to take a drug test at some point in their career...

Aug

What Is At-Will Employment in California?

What Does It Mean To Be Employed “At-Will? ” At-will employment means that an employer can terminate an employee at any time, without cause or prior notice. Employees, too, are able to terminate employment at any time without cause or notice. Does that mean you can be fired f...

Aug

What New Employment Laws Take Effect in 2018?

More than 700 bills have been sent to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk for approval as of the adjournment of the 2017 California Legislature on September 15. A handful of those were signed, including two that will affect employers starting in 2018. The first, Senate Bill (SB) 63, m...

Aug

Gender Discrimination Video

Another area of discrimination is gender discrimination. This is discrimination against someone based on what their gender is, are they male, are they female. It is absolutely illegal to make employment decisions about someone based upon their gender. Gender discriminatio...

Aug

How Do I Win My Employment Law Case in Los Angeles?

In labor and employment law, most of our claims are witness driven, fact driven, document driven. So the process is really about cross-examining, deposing, percipient witnesses, getting documents that might support them, support their statements or impeach their statement. And ba...

Aug

Can Taking Parental Leave Improve Your Mental Health?

Researchers with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health published a journal article that claimed taking paid maternity leave can improve the long-term mental health of women. If you were looking for a rationale to practice your maternity leave rights in California, this is...

Aug

Can I Resolve a Dispute Through Employee Mediation?

In the labor and employment context, mediation is often a tool that both sides like to use. What we do is we both retain an independent third party mediator, who has labor and employment background and we basically set up in two separate rooms or separate conference rooms and the...

Aug

How Do You Recognize Workplace Discrimination?

There are various things that we look for, to determine whether somebody’s being discriminated against and one of the main things we look for is, is the reason given to the employee untrue. Can the employee, can our client demonstrate that the reason the employer gave for...

Aug

How Do Arbitration Agreements Affect Labor Laws?

Arbitration is an issue that is radically changing the landscape of employment law, not just in California but across the country. With the enforceability of arbitration employers now have a weapon in their arsenal that essentially precludes employees from being able to sue their...

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