California Questions and Answers
Threatening not to pay me if I don't sign
I have worked for this company almost 2 years and they are now coming to me demanding that i sign a Confidentiality Agreement. I have looked this over and find the following flaws with it. 1) it has n...
1 answer | asked Sep 20, 2001 5:58 PM [EST] | applies to California
How do I get my money?
The company that I worked for closed their doors due to a creditor calling in his debt. I was owed a paycheck this week, 9'14'01, and a previous paycheck 9/01/01 ret. NSF. Add to that the fact that I ...
1 answer | asked Sep 14, 2001 12:00 PM [EST] | applies to California
Job Expectations Change
My employer started hiring for my position approximately one month before he told me that I was being demoted because the expectations of the job had changed since a different person hired me 4 months...
1 answer | asked Sep 12, 2001 10:00 PM [EST] | applies to California
fired for false accusation
I worked for Stuart Anderson's Black Angus as a server/bartender for about a year and a half with no problems. In my last month of employment, a new general manager was hiired and started changing eve...
1 answer | asked Sep 10, 2001 2:44 PM [EST] | applies to California
commission claims
Can my employer change my pay from hourly and commission to just hourly without my agreement.
1 answer | asked Sep 8, 2001 2:07 PM [EST] | applies to California
Repayment of signing bonus and relocation expenses
After seven months of employment I am considering leaving my company. I received relocation compensation, a signing bonus, and a one-time interest free loan (payments are deducted from my salary for 1...
1 answer | asked Sep 7, 2001 5:54 PM [EST] | applies to California
Alternative Work Schedule - Employee Rights
Does an employer that utilizes an alternative work schedule of 4 days 10 hours/day work week have the right to require an employee currently working this schedule to permanently change his schedule to...
1 answer | asked Sep 7, 2001 2:24 PM [EST] | applies to California
Employer retailiated my responding to a performance memo by terminating my employment.
Do I have good grounds for a "retaliation" lawsuit based on the following information. My immediate supervisor prepared a "Improvement Plan" memo that contained several issues that were used as the ba...
2 answers | asked Sep 6, 2001 9:39 PM [EST] | applies to California
Need a lawyer that can win retaliation case for this bookkeeper.
I have a 17 years stable, continueous work history with high integrity. Until this year. My Ex-employer denies that they fired me. They are refusing to pay my annual performance based bonus that I ear...
2 answers | asked Aug 29, 2001 4:50 PM [EST] | applies to California
Gender-biased Discrimination
I am an Executive Director of Marketing at an entertainment company and have been with the company for 2 years. I am the only woman in the senior management and the company is predominantly male. Sinc...
4 answers | asked Aug 29, 2001 2:35 PM [EST] | applies to California