Employment Law

Employment Law covers a broad spectrum of claims dealing with employment including discrimination and harassment claims, wrongful termination claims and wage and hour claims. Each of these types of claims presents its own series of challenges and requires unique handling. Mesriani Law Group’s Employment Law attorneys have experience with all of these types of claims and the proper methods to use to reach a successful resolution of the claims.

Discrimination and Harassment Claims

Under the law in California, it is illegal for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of that employee’s age, race, national origin, gender, religion or sexual preference. This discrimination can take on many forms from the obvious types of discrimination like verbal insults and slurs to the less obvious forms such as refusing to promote an employee based on his or her age, race, national origin, gender, religion or sexual preference.

Similarly, if an employee is subject to harassment on the basis of any of the above classes, they may have a harassment claim. As with the discrimination claim, this harassment can come from verbal statements by co-workers and/or management. But harassment can also have a physical component as well. Unwanted touchings, whether they are sexual advances or physical attacks, can be the subject of a sexual harassment claim.

You should be aware that the employee need not have been fired for the employee to have a possible discrimination claims. If an employee is the subject of either discrimination and/or harassment, they can possibly raise a claim while retaining their job. You should also be aware that it is illegal for an employer to terminate an employee for bringing a claim for harassment and/or discrimination against the employer.

Wage and Hour Claims

Many employees are not aware that they may have a claim against a current or former employer if that employer failed to either pay them minimum wage or pay them overtime wages. Many employers take advantage of their employees by failing to pay them properly, relying on the employee’s need for the position to keep them from getting caught. This practice is common in smaller, family run businesses which operate on a much more casual basis than the average corporate employer like a supermarket of fast food chain.

There are other issues which can be considered in determining whether there is a wage and hour claim. For example, many employees do not realize that even when an employer pays a standard daily rate, they still must pay enough so that the employee is paid the minimum wage and overtime for all hours worked, not just the minimum wage for a 8 hour day. Employees are entitled to a record on every paycheck of what they have been paid and how that wage was calculated and the failure to provide such a record can be the basis for a claim.

Mesriani Law Group is an experienced Employment law firm whose attorneys have prosecuted dozens of employment claims. Our Employment Division has exacted lucrative settlements from some of the biggest companies in America and has secured exceptional trial verdicts on employment claims as well. Mesriani Law Group remains one of the most successful and well regarded Employment Law Firms in Los Angeles and all of California.