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We understand your challenges.
And we can help.
Why Workplace Legal?
Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers represents large corporations, small businesses, startups, and high-level executives and professionals in complex labor, employment, and HR matters. We serve clients across California from offices in San Francisco and Oakland/East Bay.
Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers appear before state and federal courts, the California Labor Commissioner, and private arbitrators and mediators in single-plaintiff and class action cases involving wage and hour, PAGA, wrongful termination, breach of contract, Equal Pay Act, retaliation/whistleblower, and discrimination and harassment claims. In addition, Workplace Legal provides daily guidance to clients on all areas of HR and employment law, from creating compliant HR infrastructures to drafting executive employment agreements to advising on employee disability and discipline/termination issues to conducting executive severance negotiations.
At Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers, we approach every client and every matter from a business perspective because we’ve owned businesses too. Our attorneys have launched companies, built HR infrastructures, and hired employees. We understand the challenges of managing a workforce in California which has, without question, the most difficult, complex, and employee-friendly HR and employment laws in the nation.
Our experience as entrepreneurs informs everything we do. When you bring us an HR or employment issue, we know the law. But we also know the real world. At Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers, we resolve your HR and employment law issues in your real-world context where there are always trade-offs – usually many different ways to approach and resolve a single challenge, each with its own upside/downside, risk/benefit, and cost/reward.
We’ve confronted risk, we’ve quantified it, and we’ve managed it. We get it.
With decades of HR and employment law expertise, and real-world business and management experience, Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers delivers smart, practical, and cost-effective HR and employment law solutions to help you succeed.
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Jul 26 2024Employee Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
This week Fast Company published an article about employee performance improvement plans (PIPs). A PIP is a structured plan that is developed by the employer for an under-performing employee. In general, a PIP (a) outlines specific areas where the employee is failing to perform satisfactorily, (b) states concrete improvements that the employer expects to see… Read More
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Jul 09 2024Governor Signs PAGA Reform Bills to Ease Burdens on Employers
California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) deputizes any employee who has experienced a violation of virtually any state employment law to sue to recover penalties arising out of violations he or she experienced – plus penalties arising out of violations committed against every one of his or her coworkers, and attorneys’ fees. The potentially massive… Read More
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Jun 26 2024July 1st Deadline for Workplace Violence Prevention Plans
As we blogged about here back in March, this coming Monday, July 1st is the deadline for California employers to have implemented their newly required Workplace Violence Prevention Plans (WVPP). July 1st is also the deadline by which employers must have conducted their first WVPP training with all employees. Cal-OSHA has created a template WVPP… Read More
