Davis*Gavsie & Hakim, LLP Legal Blog

California employees have many job-related responsibilities, one of which is showing up to work when they are scheduled. However, serious illness and other major life events may require that an employee take an extended period of time off work to care for themselves...

Employees are generally told to follow the policies set forth by their employer and their manager or supervisor. However, if an employer is engaging in unlawful activity, employees have a legal right to refuse to participate, as well as a right to report their...

A severance package is usually the final step in the separation process for and employer and its employee. The previous blog post discussed an employee’s perspective when it comes to severance agreements while this blog post will look at the employer’s perspective. As...

A severance agreement, as many people in California and elsewhere would know, is meant for an employer and an aggrieved employee to come to a monetary settlement that would prevent the employee from staking any further claims from the employer. In addition, the...

A challenging economy has affected businesses in California and across the country, and many have faced closures, bankruptcy, or vastly reduced output in order to survive. The effect this has had on the workforce, however, has been to make many people distrustful of...

Many businesses in Los Angeles and across the country have adapted to a hybrid work environment that includes unprecedented numbers of employees who work remotely part-time or always from home. Since being able to track these workers’ nonexempt hours can be...

California has strict wage-and-hour laws, protecting workers who have been illegally denied overtime pay, misclassified or otherwise shortchanged by their employers. These workers can file suit against their employers, seeking return of their lost wages. One...

Online shopping has become a huge part of our lives, especially over the past year and a half. But, while the shopping experience now seems as simple as clicking a button on a website, the logistics of getting products into the hands of consumers depend on individual...

Getting fired or let go from a job can be a difficult experience for an employee, especially one who feels that the termination is not warranted. As much as we would like to think that all firings are lawful, the truth is that some employers fire employees for illegal...