California Questions and Answers

employer signed my name on documents
After filing a wage claim with CA DOL, Employer signed my name to several documents and sent them to DOL.DOL suggests civil action or hire an attorney.Should this also be reported to the police?
1 answer  |  asked Feb 24, 2004 2:31 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

pay
My boyfriend works for a company that manufactures lockers. He is a salary employee (not paid overtime) and is required to work a 50 hour week. He is supposedly the office manager but he is not in a p...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 23, 2004 7:21 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

Non Payment of Wages
Sir,I am an electrician for a small San Jose based co.None of the employees have been paid for the last 3 weeks & I am owed $1700.00 as of this date.My employer has told us IF he gets paid we will get...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 27, 2004 8:20 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

Severance packages effect on work comp benefits?
I am curently collecting workers compensation for a herniated disk. My employer has decided to permanemtly outsource my job due to the uncertainty of my return, or ability to perform upon return. A se...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 24, 2004 4:03 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

vesting period for accued vacation to be payable on termination
I was involuntarily terminated from my position as IT Manager on Jan 8, 2004. I had accrued 38.2 hours of vacation time, and this time is documented on my paystubs. When terminating me, my employer to...
2 answers  |  asked Jan 22, 2004 3:40 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

Can my employer fire me after I give my two weeks notice?
I am 18 and have worked in a law office for the past 3 and a half years. One week ago today I put in my two weeks notice to my employer. Today (due to circumstances out of my control), I was significa...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 14, 2004 3:38 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

favoritisam
What if my manager favors certain employees and promotes them with no reason, while some of us that had more work done and were in time never got the chance. The work that they did was not even close ...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 13, 2004 09:22 AM [EST]  |  applies to California

FMLA discrimination?
After 3 years of being on intermittant FMLA, my employer says that I must get a separate certification for each doctor I see. I have a permanent condition that requires that I see a few doctors. This ...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 9, 2004 10:21 AM [EST]  |  applies to California

FMLA, HOW LONG TELL HR HAS TO RESPOND
FMLA,MY WORK HAS RECIEVED MY FMLA CERT PAPERS AND HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO ME ABOUT APPROVAL FOR 2 WEEKS. HOW LONG DO THEY HAVE TO RESPOND,I'VE MADE CALLS TO THE HR PEOPLE WHO HANDLE FMLA, AND NO ONE HAS...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 18, 2003 2:23 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

final paycheck
I was fired two weeks ago (12/4/03), and I still haven't recieved my final paycheck. Our payday was the 5th, but he still won't tell me when I can expect my check. What can I do?
1 answer  |  asked Dec 16, 2003 5:50 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

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