Category: Employment Law

The California Fair Pay Act is a California-specific extension of the California Equal Pay Act (1949), which was mandated into law on the 1st January 2016.

While the original 1949 Act was designed to ensure that all workers received equal compensation for their work regardless of irrelevant factors such as sex or race, recent amendments to the Act have closed some of the loopholes that previously led to employers paying women less than men.…

Piece-rate or piecework refers to a working and payment model whereby a worker is paid a set rate per item that they produce or per task that they perform, rather than receiving a flat rate salary or per-hour rate for their attendance.…

The LGBT community in San Diego is one of the largest and most well established in the country. The Advocate magazine ranked San Diego 14th in its list of the Gayest Cities in America in 2010, beating out San Francisco, despite their own large and well-established LGBT community.…

An employer can save a significant amount of money when they classify a worker as an independent contractor as opposed to an employee. The reason being, if a company labels an individual as an employee they are required by law to pay unemployment insurance, Medicare, and social security tax.…

A hostile workplace, in short, is one that makes taking care of day-to-day responsibilities difficult or perhaps even unrealistic. If you have a boss, supervisor or fellow colleague who makes you so uncomfortable that you can barely focus on your job, then you probably work in a hostile environment.…