ANAHEIM EMPLOYEE LAWYER

Employee lawyers help workers on a contingency if their employers did not pay them all wages due, they were fired due to illegal reasons, sexually harassed, or suffered a work injury. Only an experienced employee attorney can determine if an employee has a case. AI and other internet research is too general, and often inaccurate. Actual attorney experiences provide information about how legal applications work in the real world. Get away from theoretical assumptions about the law, misinformation, unresolved issues, and hypothetical assumptions about cases that an attorney cannot prove. (714) 210-8000 

The Employment Lawyers Group serves employees from all local Anaheim and Orange County industries. After representing employees from all walks of life, since 1993, they are able to get the bottom of the situation quickly.

MINIMUM WAGE ATTORNEY

A failure to pay minimum wage often comes up when employees are paid piece rates (common in the solar industry), or their income is primarily derived from commission or other bonus pay. Minimum wage violations also occur when employees are on standby waiting to be called into work, or their employer knows or requires them to work off-the-clock and not report their hours worked. 

Outside of Orange County, the minimum wage in California is different than many city and county minimum wages. California minimum wage generally goes up each year. Employers who do not pay attention to this gradual step-up in minimum wage will find themselves the subject matter of lawsuits to collect minimum wage.

If won, minimum wage lawsuits require the employer to pay the employee’s attorney fees. Won cases for the payment of minimum wage also require the employer to pay all wages due with interest. Much of the applicable California laws on unpaid minimum wage are California Labor Code Section 1194, California Labor Code Section 1194.2, and California Labor Code Section 1194.3 which provides for attorney fees and costs.

As experienced employment lawyers we would welcome the opportunity to examine your paystubs to determine if you were appropriately paid minimum wage, the number of hours you were paid for is clear, and correct. In addition, we would like to know if your paystubs correctly indicate the number of overtime hours you were paid and the rate you were paid. The employer’s failure to properly itemize the hours you worked and the rates you were paid may subject them to additional penalties which we can help you collect.

Most lawsuits involving pay discrepancies require the employer to pay attorney fees and costs to the winning employee. If you are concerned that you are owed a sum certain by your employer and you do not want to share that money through a contingency fee, depending on your wage dispute, if the employer has to pay your attorney fees that may be factored into a settlement if your case does not go to trial or arbitration.

Employees fired due to complaints they were not paid wages are also wrongful termination cases.

Contact us (714) 210-8000 for any pay related issues.

Some of our Orange County cases involving the failure to pay minimum wage resulted in substantial recoveries for groups of employees including $2,500,000 and $750,000. Most law firms do not take minimum wage abuse seriously. We do. Outside of Orange County, we recently recovered $245,000 for one person who was not paid for all of his hours worked. In a case involving only two employees we recovered $200,000.  During the pandemic we recovered more than $300,000 for groups of two employees in one case involving a hospital and another involving a television station.

* Past Results are not a guarnantee of future recoveries.

WHISTLE BLOWER LAWYER ANAHEIM

Many employees think they were wrongfully terminated, but most of them were involved in job terminations that do not constitute wrongful termination. Employees who believe they were wrongfully terminated are best advised to let the lawyer willing to speak to them ask the right questions. This is one area where lay people genuinely do not know what is relevant. Only an interactive dialogue led by a top wrongful termination lawyer can determine if there is a case for wrongful termination. (714) 210-8000

Even if an employee was wrongfully terminated, an experienced job termination lawyer must determine whether the case can be proven. Next, the employee must have damage. Situations where employees find jobs almost immediately are generally too time consuming to bring for too little damage unless the new job pays less. Wrongful termination lawsuits are very time consuming for lawyers, and possibly also the emplooyee.

In determining whether it is viable to sue for wrongful termination, the probable defenses by the employer must be examined. Sometimes the defenses are strong such as in the case of a mass layoff, or an employee who engaged in serious misconduct warranting termination even though they complained about something illegal months earlier. Additionally, employee complaints the employer acted on may create evidentiary problems. However, an employer tired of an employee who wants the law followed might set the stage for wrongful termination.

Today, Anaheim involves a manufacturing industry, warehouses, hospitality, amusement, IT, and other industries. The workers in these industries may differ. An experienced wrongful termination lawyer with a true understanding of local industries and the types of employees there will succeed the best.