Archive for December, 2017
CAUTIONARY TALES EPISODE 4
Restaurant Hit with $274,000 In Assessments and Penalties For Underpaid and Unreported Workers The California Labor Commissioner continues to promote her department’s aggressive pursuit of employers who do not comply with wage and hour laws. In August, she targeted a Chula Vista restaurant, Dorantes, Inc., doing business as La Querencia, for back pay to six workers totaling […]
A LESSON IN CALIFORNIA’S WORKPLACE MARITAL DISCRIMINATION LAW
Employee “Marital Status” is Protected; An Employee’s Rocky Marriage is Not California is one of some 21 states prohibiting workplace discrimination against “marital status,” defined in government regulations as an individual’s “state of marriage, non-marriage, divorce or dissolution, separation, widowhood, annulment, or other marital state.” In California, a “spouse” is a partner in marriage, regardless […]