Wrongful Termination and Retaliation
Telling Your Boss About Your Pregnancy
Figuring out how to manage pregnancy and work can be challenging. This guide can help. It explains your legal protections and gives you practical tips on when to tell your boss, what to say, and how to ask for time off and workplace changes you may need.
Labor Unions: Duty of Fair Representation
A union owes a duty of fair representation to all of the workers it represents. This duty requires that the union act fairly, impartially, and without ill will or discrimination when pursuing a worker"s grievance or when negotiating a new contract with the employer.
Undocumented Workers' Employment and Paid Leave Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Ask for a Fee Waiver if you can't afford filing fees
In most cases, you have to pay a fee to file papers with the court. If you can’t afford the filing fee, you can ask the court for a “fee waiver” in order to file for free. With a fee waiver, you also may not have to pay for certified copies, sheriff's service of process fees, or other costs related to starting a case, such as the cost for a court reporter to be at your trial.
12 Facts about Employment Law
In most circumstances, employers can terminate employees “at will,” meaning at any time for any reason. And they are not even required by law to give the reason for a discharge. Read more from the links below.
Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Participation in Protests
This resource provides immigrants and their allies with accurate information so that immigrants can know their rights, understand the possible risks of participating in protests, and feel empowered to participate meaningfully, safely, and fully in our democracy.
Lost Your Job? Your Rights and Benefits
You may have specific rights, depending on how you lost your job.
The Right To Organize and Join a Union
What kinds of organizing activity are protected? What can I do if my employer takes action against me for organizing?
Undocumented Workers' Employment and Paid Leave Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Wrongful Termination
The general rule in California is that employees are considered to employed "at will," meaning that they may be fired at any time by their employers, for any reason or for no reason at all. However, there are important exceptions to the "at will" rule.
Undocumented Workers' Employment and Paid Leave Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Lost Your Job? Your Rights and Benefits
You may have specific rights, depending on how you lost your job.
Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF)
What are your rights as a worker? What Is the Underground Economy? Report a bad employer.
Ask for a Fee Waiver if you can't afford filing fees
In most cases, you have to pay a fee to file papers with the court. If you can’t afford the filing fee, you can ask the court for a “fee waiver” in order to file for free. With a fee waiver, you also may not have to pay for certified copies, sheriff's service of process fees, or other costs related to starting a case, such as the cost for a court reporter to be at your trial.
12 Facts about Employment Law
In most circumstances, employers can terminate employees “at will,” meaning at any time for any reason. And they are not even required by law to give the reason for a discharge. Read more from the links below.
Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Participation in Protests
This resource provides immigrants and their allies with accurate information so that immigrants can know their rights, understand the possible risks of participating in protests, and feel empowered to participate meaningfully, safely, and fully in our democracy.
Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF)
What are your rights as a worker? What Is the Underground Economy? Report a bad employer.
Labor Unions: Duty of Fair Representation
A union owes a duty of fair representation to all of the workers it represents. This duty requires that the union act fairly, impartially, and without ill will or discrimination when pursuing a worker"s grievance or when negotiating a new contract with the employer.
Lost Your Job? Your Rights and Benefits
You may have specific rights, depending on how you lost your job.
Telling Your Boss About Your Pregnancy
Figuring out how to manage pregnancy and work can be challenging. This guide can help. It explains your legal protections and gives you practical tips on when to tell your boss, what to say, and how to ask for time off and workplace changes you may need.
The Right To Organize and Join a Union
What kinds of organizing activity are protected? What can I do if my employer takes action against me for organizing?
Undocumented Workers' Employment and Paid Leave Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Wrongful Termination
The general rule in California is that employees are considered to employed "at will," meaning that they may be fired at any time by their employers, for any reason or for no reason at all. However, there are important exceptions to the "at will" rule.