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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...

Dec

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...

Dec

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...

Dec

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...

Dec

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...

Dec

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...

Dec

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...

Dec

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...

Dec

What Does ‘At-Will Employment’ Mean?

California is one of many states that recognizes at-will employment. This means employers or employees can terminate their relationship ‘at-will’ with or without cause. Under California’s at-will doctrine, an employer can fire an employee under most circumstances. However, an emp...

Dec

California Considers New Law to Prevent Wage Theft

A bill was recently signed into law that aims to prevent wage theft. Before we discuss how the bill will work, let's go over why it was needed in the first place. Wage theft is an out-of-control problem in California and here in Los Angeles. In fact, Los Angeles worker...

Dec

How An Employment Lawyer Can Help Workers With Job Disputes

Hi, I’m Michael Jacob with the employment law firm of Kesluk, Silverstein, Jacob & Morrison, P. C. Why Kesluk Silverstein & Jacob? It’s a firm that advocates for employees who have suffered all sorts of discrimination, retaliation, harassment. We can take cases to trial...

Dec

Why Do Other Attorneys Refer Employment Law Cases To Your Firm?

At Kesluk, Silverstein, Jacob & Morrison, P. C. , our employment lawyers represent a variety of clients that come to us as referrals from other attorneys who know we have the resources to win complex employment law cases. Other California law firms recognize that we are liti...

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