The terms of California employment contracts are increasingly finding their way into courtrooms, as companies sue former workers for violation of “non-compete agreements.” Our Costa Mesa employment lawyers recognize that such agreements are serving to limit entrepreneurial growth, with businesses defending the practice as a simple protection of their own…
An effort to mitigate the harm done by the 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision Gross v. FBL Financial Services is underway in both the U.S. House and Senate in the form of the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. Our Costa Mesa age discrimination attorneys know that the Gross decision…
It’s been nearly a quarter century since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. One would think the learning curve would be over. And yet, our Orange County workplace disability lawyers hear daily about cases in which workers with disabilities have been treated unfairly. Just in the last month,…
In most fields, experience is seen as a benefit, something valued and sought-after. However, in the high-tech world and Silicon Valley in particular, experience, or more specifically, age, may actually work against you. In fact, age discrimination in California appears to be especially acute in the technological fields, according to…
On the surface, it would have seemed a very straightforward case of sexual harassment. A senior male employee corners a younger female worker with unwanted comments about her body, tells her she should participate in an orgy with him and suggests that she remove her clothing before coming into meet…
Perhaps it was inevitable in some ways. It certainly wasn’t entirely unexpected. Age discrimination in California is on the uptick, as baby boomers continue to grow older. The older folks get, the more potential opportunity there is for employers to skirt the law. This year, the oldest baby boomers, born…
A recent study by Princeton researchers seems to indicate that age discrimination is more prevalent than we might have otherwise believed. Our Costa Mesa age discrimination attorneys understand that the study authors gathered some 140 undergraduate students. The students were told this person would be their partner in a trivia…
A federal trial is pending in a case of alleged disability discrimination by the nation’s highest law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigations. In the case of Slaby v. Holder, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a wounded U.S. Army veteran is suing the FBI for disability…
A wage and hour lawsuit filed against Apple Inc. late last month in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California alleges the technology firm failed to pay workers for time they were required to spend on the job. Our Costa Mesa wage and hour attorneys understand that the…
The sexual harassment scandal bubbling over in San Diego has become a blight on the city, as the embattled mayor is now attempting to strong-arm the city into paying his legal bills due to a failure to provide anti-sexual harassment training. Our Costa Mesa sexual harassment lawyers recognize that such…