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Employment Law
Employment Law
If you are experiencing discrimination, harassment, or other illegal treatment at your place of work, you are entitled to speak out against this in justice and even gain compensation for the trials you have endured. Our law firm provides legal counsel to help you uphold employees’ rights, and we will help evaluate whether your employers have acted lawfully regarding their treatment of you and your other employees.
Whether you need representation for a dispute resolution process, you require protection against retaliation for speaking out against your employer, or need legal assistance against discrimination and harassment, we will help you with your legal case every step of the way.
Our Clients:
- Construction
- Medical Worker
- Factory Worker
- Restaurants
- Bartenders
- Busboys
- Wait Staff
- Medical Workers
- Part-Time
- Full-Time
- Seasonal
- Temporary
Not a citizen? Don’t worry. Your immigration status isn’t a factor in California for being able get the money you are owed from your employer!
Wage and Hour
The Law Office of Arta Wildeboer represents victims of unfair labor practices by employers all over California, including compensation for overtime and failure to provide meal and rest breaks.
Employers have a duty to help provide a healthy working environment for their nonexempt employees and provide them with legally mandated rest and meal breaks throughout their work day depending on the hours worked by the employee.
rest and Meal breaks
Many people are not aware that their rights are being violated every day! Employers must allow you an uninterrupted meal break of 30-minutes for nonexempt if they work a shift of more than 5 hours. An employee that works more than 10 hours is entitled to another 30-minute meal break.
Further, employees who work an 8-hour shift are also entitled to one 10-minute break every four hours. Every lunch break that is missed or interrupted entitles an employee to an extra hour of pay at their regular hourly rate and for missed breaks they can also receive another hour of compensation at their hourly rate.
Employers must not interrupt their employees for 30 minutes with any work-related duties during these rest meal breaks, and can have no control of the employee’s activity, meaning the employee can even leave the work site during their lunch break.
If you have been missing your breaks because your employer doesn’t provide it or you are too overworked to even stop and take a break, then your employer may be violating California Law.
Employment
We are passionate about getting justice for our clients whose civil rights have been violated by their employers. We have experience representing plaintiffs in a wide range of employment matters, including:
- Wage and Hour – Overtime and Missed Meal and Rest Breaks
- Discrimination – race, national origin, religion, sex, disability, medical
- Harassment – including sexual harassment
- Retaliation
- Whistle-blowing
- Wrongful termination
We focus on Cases That Include:
Discrimination
Harassment
Overtime
Rest/Meal Breaks
What if I'm not a U.S. Citizen or my status is undocumented?
Undocumented workers are entitled to the same protections for most for wage and hour claims as well as other employment-related claims in California.
Can I get fired or get in trouble for reporting a claim against my employer?
Employees are protected by the law from retaliation from employers when filing a good-faith claim whether it be for wage and hour claims, harassment and discrimination, or otherwise. If you are fired or your employer takes negative action against you after you file a claim you may be entitled to damages for lost wages, out-of-pocket cost (like ones associated with looking for a new job), attorney's fees and costs, and liquidated damages in an amount equal to your lost wages.