Articles Tagged with employee misclassification

According to a recent news feature from the Orange County Register, the clothing retailer American Apparel is cutting 300 jobs in Los Angeles and 80 more in Garden Grove. The 80 employees may not be the only ones laid off in Garden Grove as union leaders are preparing for that number to reach 150 in the next week or so.  These jobs are at a processing facility run by the clothing manufacturer in the Los Angeles area.

These employees work as sewers, laborers, and even supervisors at the clothing manufacturing plant. As one might expect, the union that represents these workers in not happy with the all the past and future layoffs and has called for a major picket outside of the company’s factory.  Continue Reading ›

We all know that finding a new job can be difficult.  This is especially true if you are currently unemployed.  As the saying goes, it’s easier to find a job when you already have a job.  However, we talk about finding a new job, many people do not even know where to begin.

According to a recent news feature from CBS Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has just released a new smart phone app designed to help people in the city find jobs. The way the app works is that it searches jobs from various listings and aggregates the results. This includes an average of around 50,000 jobs within city limits and another 100,000 jobs in Los Angeles County. Continue Reading ›

If a worker is classified as an independent contractor, then by the classification’s very nature, the worker is not an employee. In many industries there is a lot of worker misclassification. One of the biggest industries with worker misclassification problems is the construction industry, and, in California, there are a lot of construction workers.

The reason employers often to try classify all the workers as independent contractors is because it is cheaper when you do not have a pay a worker overtime or give him or her any benefits. Continue Reading ›