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Large unpaid wage claims in California arise when an employer fails to pay an employee what they have already earned and the amount owed is significant (tens of thousands of dollars or more). This is not about a small payroll mistake or a missed hour of overtime. It...
If you work in finance, fintech, or financial technology and were just laid off in California, you are probably staring at a severance agreement and wondering what happens next. Questions about bonuses, RSUs, and equity come up immediately, especially when your...
When you tell your employer you have a disability, you expect cooperation. Instead, many California employees get pushback. HR stops returning calls. Managers get annoyed. Suddenly your job duties change, your schedule shifts, or you start getting treated like a...
California Executives Falsely Accused of Sexual Harassment: How to Protect Your Career and Fight Wrongful Termination If you’re a California executive falsely accused of sexual harassment, you already know how quickly your career can go from steady to freefall. One...
California disability discrimination in employment happens more often than most employees realize. If you’re dealing with a temporary or permanent disability or medical condition, the law expects your employer to work with you to identify solutions that keep you...
If you work in California’s entertainment industry and you see the writing on the wall, you already know what’s coming. When a studio, streamer, production company, or agency decides to make a change, it happens fast. One week you’re developing a slate, running a...
If you are a California healthcare executive and you were just handed a severance agreement, you already know how fast the ground can shift under you. One day you are leading a hospital division, overseeing clinical operations, managing compliance risk, or guiding a...
If you are a sales executive in California and your company just terminated your employment and handed you a severance agreement, you are already in the middle of the fight. Severance negotiation for California sales executives is never simple, because your...
The status of RSUs after a layoff in California raise immediate questions for employees in the technology, startup, fintech, and enterprise sales sectors. Restricted stock units have become a major part of compensation, and companies use RSUs to recruit talent,...
If you recently won a wage dispute in front of the California Labor Commissioner and your employer is now threatening to appeal, the next step is understanding how appeal deadlines for Labor Commissioner decisions actually work. Your hearing is handled by the Division...
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