Anyone who has worked at any job has likely seen someone get injured on the job. Whether we are talking about an employee falling and injuring an ankle, or a factory worker who is in a fatal accident, accidents happen all the time. Not only do accidents happen to employees…
According to a recent news article from the Los Angeles Times, an employee who was fired from a prominent aerospace company filed a lawsuit against his employer claiming that his employer wrongfully terminated him. Unfortunately for this employee, a California jury did not agree with his claims, and a verdict…
According to a recent news report from the Los Angeles Times, 20 employees were terminated as part of the harassment investigation involving a ride sharing company. The company has been facing a lot of bad press lately. The chief executive resigned following what was interpreted as a sexist joke at…
California is considered an at-will employment state. This means that, for the most part, an employer can fire an employee for any reason at any time without regard to the employee’s past or present conduct. This means that an employer can fire an exemplary employee without even giving a reason. …
Little Saigon is a neighborhood that is south of Los Angeles that is home to many people of Vietnamese heritage. Many of the Vietnamese immigrants who came to America and settled in Little Saigon are very much against the communist party, since the communists assumed control of their homeland following…
Elon Musk is a billionaire investor who is generally known as being somewhat eccentric. His primary investments are Tesla, which manufactures high-end electric cars, and Space X, the private space company developing rockets to carry people and cargo into a low-earth orbit and to rendezvous with the International Space Station.…
According to a recent news article from The Los Angeles Times, the prevailing wage for construction workers in California is at the forefront of a growing debate over housing. This is a fairly complex issue when we look at the definition of the prevailing wage and how it works in…
For a variety of reasons, American workers are not showing up in droves to pick crops. As we have seen across the country, when trying to fill tens of thousands of harvest-related jobs, it is rare to see more than a small handful of Americans apply for these positions. Even if…
Orange County gender discrimination lawyers represent women in all different professions who experience discriminatory behavior based on their sex. No professional, no matter how skilled or how far that person advances in a career, is safe from the devastating impact of unlawful discrimination. Researchers from University of California San Francisco…
Fox News Channel has been faced with numerous claims of unlawful employment actions in recent months. Fox has settled numerous sexual harassment cases, and is now facing an expanded racial discrimination lawsuit. The expanded lawsuit involves multiple former Fox workers, all of whom claim they were racially discriminated against while…