California Employment Lawyer Practice Areas

Workplace discrimination can affect hiring, promotions, pay, assignments, discipline, and termination. We represent employees facing discrimination based on protected characteristics such as race, age, disability, and national origin.

Being fired is not always lawful, even in an at-will employment state. We represent employees terminated because of discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing, protected leave, or exercising other workplace rights.

Employers cannot lawfully punish employees for exercising protected workplace rights. We represent workers who have been fired, demoted, disciplined, threatened, harassed, or otherwise penalized after engaging in protected activity.

Sexual harassment can include unwanted advances, inappropriate comments, sexual conduct, hostile work environments, and retaliation. We represent employees who have experienced unlawful sexual harassment in the workplace.

Employees have the right to be paid properly and on time. We represent workers in claims involving unpaid wages, overtime, missed breaks, commissions, expense reimbursement, final pay, and other wage and hour violations.

Being wrongly classified as an independent contractor or exempt employee can cost you wages and workplace protections. We help workers pursue unpaid overtime, breaks, reimbursements, and other compensation they were denied.

Employees should not have to choose between their jobs and caring for their health or families. We represent workers denied protected family or medical leave, refused reinstatement, retaliated against, or terminated after taking leave.

Employees who report suspected illegal conduct may be protected from workplace retaliation. We represent whistleblowers who face termination, demotion, threats, harassment, isolation, or other punishment after speaking up.

When unlawful employment practices affect a group of workers, a class action may provide a way to pursue relief collectively. We represent employees in class actions involving unpaid wages, overtime, misclassification, missed breaks, and other violations.

Employees may have important leave and accommodation rights during pregnancy and childbirth. We represent workers denied pregnancy leave or accommodations, refused reinstatement, retaliated against, or terminated for exercising these rights.

Employees age 40 and older are protected from unlawful age discrimination. We represent workers who have been denied opportunities, pressured to retire, harassed, laid off, terminated, or otherwise treated unfairly because of their age.