Category Archives: Employment
Salaried Workers and Overtime Pay: How Does it Work?
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires, among other things, that workers get paid overtime pay, for any hours worked weekly, over 40 hours a week. With per-hour, hourly paid workers, this is often easy to compute: Just see how many hours a worker has worked, see if it’s over 40 hours, and see… Read More »
How Long Can Your Employer Wait to Pay You?
For many employees, their relationship with their employer is a good one. This is especially true in smaller companies, where the company can seem like a “family,” and where supervisors or owners may also be friends or people that employees have grown close to. When these kinds of companies fall on hard or slow… Read More »
The Supreme Court is About to Answer a Big Question on Reverse Discrimination
Most of us already know that discrimination or harassment in the workplace based on a protected classification such as race or nationality or religion, among other categories, is illegal. But does that include all races, nationalities and religions—even so-called “majority” ones? What is Reverse Discrimination? That’s the issue that the Supreme Court is set… Read More »
The ADA and the Essential Functions Test
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) generally says that if you have a disability, your employer must make accommodations in your workplace to allow you to do your job. You can’t be punished, fired, harassed, or discriminated against because of your disability. When Accommodations Won’t Help But sometimes, an employee is disabled so severely,… Read More »
Understanding Medical Disclosure Requirements Under the ADA
Do you need accommodations at work because of a medical condition? The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) protects you. But many employees don’t understand what they can be asked and when, and what medical information they have to tell their employers. Time to Disclose Information There is no time limit on telling your employer… Read More »
Sexual Harassment When a Workplace Relationship Ends
For many of us, we will spend more time at work, and with our co-workers, than we do at home, or than we do socially. That means for those who are single, there is a high likelihood that you may meet that special someone at work, and start a consensual relationship with that co-worker…. Read More »
Signs That You May Have Been Fired Illegally
One day you’re at work, doing your job, without issue. Then it happens. You’re called into a supervisor’s office, and you’ve been let go. But it’s not that simple—you suspect that you were let go, for an illegal reason. How can you prove that’s the case? What’s Illegal? Before we get to that, let’s… Read More »
Amazon Gets Sued for Trying to Impose Noncompete Agreements on Employees
In California, it has long been the law that noncompete agreements are illegal. The federal government followed suit, banning them nationally as of 2024. But according to a recent lawsuit, one company, Amazon, may be doing its best to circumvent the bans, a practice that employees should look for. Lawsuit Alleges Noncompete was Disguised… Read More »
The Role of Temporal Proximity in Retaliation Cases
As an employee, you have an absolute right to assert your legal rights or to report wrongdoing by your employer. When an employee is punished at work by an employer for asserting rights that the employee has a legal right to assert, the employee may have a claim for retaliation. What is Retaliation? Just… Read More »
Associational Discrimination: The ADA is More Powerful Than You Thought
The Americans With Disabilities Act or ADA is a powerful law that protects workers with disabilities. But it does even more than that. It even protects otherwise healthy, non-disabled workers that have some relationship to others who have disabilities. The ADA, Generally The ADA generally says that if you have a disability, your employer… Read More »
