Employment Law

Feel pressured to work through breaks? In California, meal and rest breaks are protected legal rights that employers must provide you under California’s labor laws. This simple guide explains what these laws require and what you should do if your rights are violated. Meal Breaks: Your Rights Under California’s Labor Laws Understanding your meal break …

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By Ella Zalon (7/28/2023) Commonly experienced in workplace settings, microaggressions are comments or behaviors made due to underlying biases held towards certain groups. They point to an implicit attitude one may hold about a protected class (e.g., ethnic, racial, gender minorities) and can be overlooked or unnoticed by bystanders. Microaggressions may not be direct remarks …

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California has taken a groundbreaking step in workplace protections by becoming the first state to explicitly recognize intersectionality in its discrimination laws. This means that employees who experience discrimination based on multiple protected characteristics—such as race and gender combined—now have stronger legal protections when seeking justice. What Is Intersectionality, and Why Does It Matter? Intersectionality …

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By Ella Zalon (7/28/2023) Commonly experienced in workplace settings, microaggressions are comments or behaviors made due to underlying biases held towards certain groups. They point to an implicit attitude one may hold about a protected class (e.g., ethnic, racial, gender minorities) and can be overlooked or unnoticed by bystanders. Microaggressions may not be direct remarks …

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By Alex Li Dan Gildor, Valerian Law’s new Senior Counsel, has lived many professional lives: as an aspiring astrophysicist at MIT, a programmer at start-ups during Silicon Valley’s dot-com boom, an environmental litigator enforcing the Clean Water Act, a lawyer for the Department of Industrial Relations, and a plaintiff’s-side employment lawyer for renowned class-action law …

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