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Top 5 Most Common Employment & Workplace Violations

There are many misconceptions, justifications and plain old wrongdoing by small businesses and large corporations all over the world, every single day. It's up to you, to ensure that you know when you are being taken advantage of or lead down a path that is not efficient for you, and probably not legal.

Here is a list of the Top 5 most common employment and workplace violations many people, including you, should know about:

1. Not Paying Overtime: It is not up to your employer if you are eligible for overtime pay or not. If you are non-exempt, your employer must pay you time and a half for all hours you work after 40 hours in a specified week.
2. Misclassification of Workers: Many companies try and sneak under the radar and get away with sneaky justifications and stretching regulations. Some will treat independent contractors like employees, and also treat employees like independent contractors, allowing them to fill out a 1099 form at the end of the year.
3. Working Off the Clock with No Pay: All non-exempt workers must be compensated for their time working, taking calls and or other business matters when off the clock, at night, on the weekends, at home or away from their desk.
4. Disciplining for Social Media: The National Labor Relations Act protects employees' ability to communicate and discuss how much they make between each other. This gives a legal opportunity to correct information being shared in the situation of a unionizing event or any other circumstance.
5. Salary with no-overtime for supervisor: According to the DOL, there is a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that states employers must pay their foreman or supervisor in charge of other employees of a manual labor position overtime, and not try and pay them a salary alone.

The violations, issues and concerns of what many businesses and corporations are getting away with are devastating, making the importance of knowing, understanding and standing up for you, your co-workers and family's rights even stronger.

You may not be the only one experiencing these violations a deceptions. They could be silently or unknowingly happening to your friends, family and coworkers. Now that you are aware of not only what is wrong, but identifying the problem and being bold enough to hire an aggressively skilled and experienced law firm that specializes in employment law legal representation.

Let Bisnar Chase win this case for you at maximum compensation, like we have for over 12,000 clients, bringing in over $500 Million.

California Employment Trial Lawyers

We know the laws regarding California workplaces from front to back and we will let you know if your case against your employer qualifies you for compensation.

Our law firm has an outstanding team of legal professionals that work every case down to the last detail. Our California employment attorneys are also trial lawyers and take cases to trial on a regular basis.

Having superior legal representation when taking legal action against your employer is the smartest thing you can do. The lawyers at Bisnar Chase have almost 4 decades of experience winning employment rights and employment law cases.

Experiencing a violation from your employer can not only be extremely frustrating and financially devastating, it can cause depression, PTSD, emotional and interpersonal communication problems. These significant impacts on your personal life can be utterly traumatic and can rip families apart.

Don't settle for a law firm that refuses to try your case or simply settle with your employer. Read the following summaries of the different categories of employment law down below.

Wage and hour cases are seen most frequently out of all the types of cases in employment law because these cases are easily the most documented cases of employment law violations. Wage violation occurs in the following situations:

• Employer fails to provide pay stubs with detailed information.
• Employees are classified as "exempt" and are not given overtime pay.
• Employer does not provide employees with 10 minute breaks for every four hours of work.
• Employers do not provide employees with meal breaks within the first five hours of work.
• Employer neglects to provide paid time for tasks required to properly prepare for work.
• Employer neglects to ensure employees are meeting minimum wage requirements.
• Employer neglects to provide second meal breaks for shifts longer than 10 hours.

Learn more about the specific California laws regarding wage and hour:

Harassment on the job and unfair wages and discrimination are the realities of millions of American workers, and applies when an employee of a company legitimately fears going to their workplace due to the hostile environment they encounter there. Filing a lawsuit in these situations is difficult, but not impossible. Visit our hostile workplace environment page to see if you have a case.

California is an "at-will" employment state, meaning that an employer may terminate an employee at any time, with or without cause. Though there are exceptions to this law, like in cases of whistle blowing or discrimination, the legal language generally makes it very difficult to bring a case against a company for wrongful termination. Some attorneys will ignore wrongful termination cases because of this difficulty, but Bisnar Chase investigates evidence of wrongdoing not only within the termination process, but also in other aspects of the employer's treatment of its workers.

Learn more about what can be considered a wrongful termination:

Employment Lawyers That Will Fight For You

Employees who deal with wage violations, wrongful termination, harassment, or a hostile work environment have a right to receive compensation.

Our top rated California employment law attorneys have been defending the rights of workers in courtrooms for over 39 years. We have the experience and resources to take on some of the toughest cases in the state of California, which many of which were previously rejected and denied by other very reputable firms because of their lack of experience, lack of knowledge, lack of resources and lack of ability to win their cases.

At Bisnar Chase, we will win your case, or you don't pay anything. Bisnar Chase has the attorneys and a large staff of paralegals to get you the best possible results for your case. Call for immediate assistance and receive a Free Consultation and Case Evaluation at800-561-4887.