Employment Attorneys Los Angeles

Determining the Amount of Exemplary/Punitive Damages

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: california wage law, Employee Rights, Wage Violations
In California, a claim for punitive damages is broken down into two phases. The first phase is generally the trial to determine the liability of the defendant and the amount of compensatory damages that should be paid. The second phase is the determination of what exemplary/economic damages should be paid. The amoun...

New Wrongful Termination Case Filed Against Mattel By Danz Law

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Workplace Discrimination
In a recent case, our firm filed an employment termination case in LA Superior Court. The case asserts that the plaintiff who worked for a company, Mattel, Inc. for just short of 50 years has the right to file his claim under the Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA"), codified at California Government Code, Section...

New Updates on Accommodation, Retaliation, and California’s Family Rights Act

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights
In this segment of ‘Weekly Employee Rights Update’, we aim to provide our employee subscribers with timely educational information from recent cases and laws. New Workplace Protection to Employees Requesting Accommodation: Last week, the California Assembly finalized its review of a bill that will revise portio...