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Orange County Employment Attorneys

Protecting Employee Rights

HANDLING CASES AGAINST THE LARGEST EMPLOYERS AND LAW FIRMS IN CALIFORNIA


WAGE CLAIM LAWYER


Our wage attorneys will calculate the correct amount of your unpaid wages, fight for all penalties, interest, and attorney fees. We will utilize multiple California Labor Code provisions to argue the maximum amount due. Besides using all of the applicable labor laws, we will figure out how to prove your claim for wages. Many clients do not know exactly how many hours of overtime they worked, but were not paid. Likewise, they do not know how many meal or rest breaks they missed. After handling wage and hour cases for thousands of employees we know which records to look at, obtain from your employer, how to handle the case if records do not exist, or are incorrect. We also have experience calculating complex damages, or finding expert witnesses to calculate wage theft schemes spanning more than 1,000 days per employee.

UNPAID WAGES

Our experienced wage lawyers have particular expertise in cases involving all types of unpaid wages for one employee, groups of employees, class actions, and PAGA actions.

  • Bonuses Not Paid, or Overtime That Does Not Include Bonus Pay
  • Commissions Not Paid Including When the Employee is Fired or Quit
  • Controlled Standby Pay
  • Double Minimum Wage for Employees Who Must Bring Tools to Work
  • Double Time
  • Flag Rate Pay for Mechanics
  • Late Pay Penalties
  • Meal Break Premium Pay
  • Minimum Wage
  • Off the Clock Work
  • Overtime
  • PAGA (Private Attorney General Action) Penalties
  • Paystub violations
  • Prevailing Wage
  • Reporting Time Pay
  • Rest Breaks
  • Standby Pay
  • Stock Options

All wage lawsuits are taken on a contingency. We are paid a percent out of the money collected. We even advance litigation costs (i.e. court filing fees, depositions, mediation fees).

CALL (714) 210-8000 FOR AN EXPERIENCED WAGE LAWYER


EMPLOYER NOT PAYING ME


Your wages are your livelihood. Take action, protect your dignity. You are not alone. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of employees, receive money every year for wages their employer did not properly pay. In a 7 year recent period, more than 10 billion dollars has been collected by private attorneys on behalf of the California Labor Workforce Development Agency as penalties against employers who have failed to properly adhere to the Labor Code. Unless you take action, your employer will have gotten away with not paying you, keeping money that is legally yours. This is called, “Wage theft.”

SUE FOR WAGES

Every week our wage theft lawyers receive calls from employees who are not paid all of their wages when they are fired, or quit. For each day wages are not paid, up to 30, the employer must pay the employee’s daily wage. It is a sad fact so many employers think they can get away not paying all wages due to the employee when they will not be working there anymore.

There are many examples of situations in which employers are not paying their employees. The companies who engage in these practices range from one person employers to multi-national companies. It is astounding there are so many employers who expect their employees to work without being compensated.


CALL (714) 210-8000 TO GET BACK THE WAGES YOUR EMPLOYER STOLE FROM YOU


SUING FOR WAGES


Suing for wages does not have to be a stressful circumstance if you have the right lawyers. Our wage attorneys have helped tens of thousands of employees recover wages in individual lawsuits, group actions, class actions, and PAGA actions. We commonly represent employees who still work for the employer we are suing. Our professional, experienced lawyers are here to get you what you deserve. Whether you are owed wages for yourself, or the lawsuit is for multiple employees, we want to help.

The only way to get top dollar and recover all of the wages and penalties you are owed is to file your lawsuit. There are many statutes of limitations on a wage and hour case. It is important all wage actions be filed quickly. Opposed to other law firms, at the Employment Lawyers Group you will get personal attention from a team of one to two experienced lawyers. Your case will not be handed off to case managers and paralegals. Experience wage attorneys will guide you along the way, and tell you what information and documents we need in order to put you in the best position. However, a lot of wage and hour cases start without documents from our clients. Once we file the lawsuit the employer must supply all relevant documents. Relevant documents include paystubs, time sheets, work schedules, and often text messages.


Some of our Wage and Hour Settlement Include:

$875,000 to employees on-call who did not receive meal breaks or standby pay
$800,000 for controlled standby pay to emergency workers
$800,000 for overtime owed
$775,000 for not paying minimum wage workers for missed meal breaks
$750,000 for not paying minimum wage
$400,000 for controlled standby owed to two low voltage employees
$350,000 for overtime and controlled standby for one employee
$350,000 for controlled standby, meal breaks to 2 employees & a small PAGA group
$350,000 to heavy equipment operators owed prevailing wage, paystub errors
$325,000 to an oil field worker whose overtime did not include fix rated bonus pay
$310,000 to 2 telecommunication hospital workers on call
$250,000 to 2 employees not paid overtime, missed meal breaks, small PAGA group
$200,000 to a security officer forced to work off the clock, complained, and quit
$175,000 to a small PAGA group in a hotel
$140,000 to a salaried nurse not paid for all hours worked
$150,000 to 1 employee whose fixed rate bonus pay was wrong and small PAGA group
$100,000 PAGA only settlement

Our Firm: No upfront fees or costs

Contingency Fee Representation

All employment cases for employees are taken on a contingency basis. We are only paid a fee when and if we win your case, and we advance all litigation costs. Our goal is to make expert legal representation accessible to every hardworking employee.

Serving Orange County County

We have proudly served all of Orange County County since 1993.

The Employment Lawyers Group has successfully handled

2,000+

Separate California Employment Cases

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Sample Case Results

Disclaimer: These results are based on the facts of these specific cases and do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case.

Our California Locations

BakersfieldBakersfield

BakersfieldLaborAttorney.com

5401 Business Park S, #214,
Bakersfield CA 93309

(661) 412-9600

Los AngelesLos Angeles

EmployeeLawCA.com

611 Wilshire Blvd, #1023,
Los Angeles CA 90017

(323) 525-1600

Orange CountyOrange County

WorkLawyerOC.com

2522 Chambers Rd, #100,
Tustin CA 92780

(714) 210-8000

RiversideRiverside

RiversideEmploymentLawyer.com

9496 Magnolia Ave, #208,
Riverside CA 92503

(951) 367-1000

SacramentoSacramento

SacramentoLaborAttorney.com

777 Campus Commons Rd, #200,
Sacramento CA 95825

(916) 340-0000

San BernardinoSan Bernardino

EmploymentAttorneySanBernardino.com

337 N. Vineyard Ave, #400,
Ontario CA 91764

(909) 663-2100

San DiegoSan Diego

SanDiegoEmployeeLawyer.com

330 “A” St, #60,
San Diego CA 92101

(619) 320-3000

San FranciscoSan Francisco

BayAreaEmploymentAttorney.net

524 Union St, #400,
San Francisco CA 94133

(877) 525-0700

San JoseSan Jose

SivalleyLaborLawyer.com

111 N. Market St, #300,
San Jose CA 95113

(877) 525-0700

Sherman OaksSherman Oaks

WorkLawyerCa.com

13418 Ventura Blvd,
Sherman Oaks CA 91423

(818) 783-7300

TorranceTorrance

JobTerminationLaw.com

3655 Torrance Blvd, 3rd Floor,
Torrance CA 90503

(310) 842-8600

VenturaVentura

VenturaEmploymentLawyer.com

4030 West Hemlock St,
Oxnard CA 93035

(805) 200-0100

Additional Sites

About Firm Founder, Karl Gerber

Firm Founder, Karl Gerber, has been an employment wrongful termination attorney since 1993. He has represented a wide range of employees throughout California.

Mr. Gerber has won 51 of the binding arbitrations and jury trials he first chaired, and a number of his appeals are published. This deep trial experience is the foundation of the firm's strategic approach to litigation.

The employment attorneys employed by the Employment Lawyers Group have worked at the firm well in excess of five years, have also tried many different labor cases, and have all been extensively trained on employment wrongful termination by Karl Gerber.

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