Collecting compensation for labor law infringement in California

Employees can collect compensation benefits from the employers if they fail to pay you your wages. The state laws enforce heavy consequences on employers that violate labor laws. You’ll need unpaid wage lawyers to file a lawsuit against your employer. Nakese law firm is one of the reputed attorneys in California and are experienced in unpaid pages, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, racial discrimination and wrong terminations. The penalties will vary depending on the type of violation.  Some of the labor law violations have been listed below.

Unpaid wages:

Any claims that you make against your employer for wage payment will be considered as damages and not penalties. Employers have to compensate for these damages caused to the employees. In the first place, it’s an employee’s right to get paid for all the hours that they have worked. On the other hand, penalties are fines that employers have to pay for violating the labor laws. These penalties are a kind of punishment that employers have to bear to prevent them from acting unlawfully in the near future. The employers with a total of 25 employees will have to be paid a minimum wage of $12.00, whereas employers having a larger number of employees i.e. 26 or more employees will have to be paid a minimum amount of $13.00. Employees need to pay premium wages if the employees work for more than 40 hours in a week.

Missed meal and rest breaks:

California laws require employers to give a minimum of 10 minutes break from work for 4 hours. Besides this, an employee is entitled to a total of 30 minutes of meal break once they have worked for 5 hours. Employers will break this law if they don’t provide meal and rest breaks to the employees. The latter can collect 2 hours of pay if they are denied meal and rest breaks.

Damages for minimum wage claims:

Your employer has to compensate for the losses if they fail to provide you the minimum wages. It is presumed by the California Law that employees are suffering because they’ve been evicted from the earned compensation.

Waiting time penalties:

 California laws are very strict and therefore, the employers should be aware of them. There is a certain time limit within which an employer has to pay the wages, including bonuses and other payments in case the employee is fired or they leave their job voluntarily.  If employees are fired or terminated, they are entitled to receive a pay packet immediately at the time of termination. However, the rule is slightly different if the employee leaves the job voluntarily. In the employee leaves a job without any notice, the employer gets 72 hours for clearing all the payments. Whereas, if the employee had already informed the employer through an advanced 2-week notice letter, then the employer has to immediately clear the payment at the time of quitting. Paychecks may not include only the salary but also extra wages for working overtime, or vacations.

You may be entitled to waiting time penalties if at the time of quitting you don’t receive all the wages. For example, if you are supposed to get $60 per day and your employer delays it for ten days, then you can collect a total of $600 as a penalty.

The wage and hour laws of California ensure that qualified employees can claim compensation not only for delayed or denied payment but can also collect the cost and fees of attorneys and courts.