EMPLOYMENT LAW
Wrongful Termination:
Wrongful Termination : Employment law establishes guidelines and criteria for terminating an employee's employment. It prohibits employers from firing employees for reasons that violate protected rights, such as discrimination based on race, religion, gender, age, disability, or retaliation for whistleblowing or exercising legally protected rights.
Discrimination:
States, prohibit discrimination in hiring, firing, promotion, compensation, and other employment practices based on protected characteristics like race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and disability. These laws aim to ensure equal opportunities and fair treatment for all employees.
Wage and Hour:
Employment law also addresses wage and hour matters, such as minimum wage, overtime pay, and working hours.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act. Briefly, sexual harassment refers to both unwelcome sexual advances, or other visual, verbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature and actions that create an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment based on an employee’s sex. Under California law, the offensive conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire, but may be based upon an employee’s actual or perceived sex or gender-identity, actual or perceived sexual orientation, and/or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. This definition includes many forms of offensive behavior and includes gender-based harassment of a person of the same sex as the harasser, and actions that subject co-workers to a hostile work environment.