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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 from offices in San Francisco, Oakland/East Bay, and New York.
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 and New York — two states with 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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Oct 28 2024
Get Ready — New Employment Laws Coming in 2025
Governor Newsom formally concluded the 2024 legislative session by signing into law several new bills that greatly expand employee rights in California starting on January 1, 2025. Between now and then, California employers should review their existing policies to ensure compliance with these laws in the new year. New State Minimum Wage (Prop 32) On… Read More
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Sep 05 2024
New IRS Ruling Gives Employers and Employees More Benefits Flexibility
A recent IRS private letter ruling will potentially allow employees more flexibility to determine how employer 401K contributions are paid out to them.
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Aug 22 2024
California Employers Must Display New Whistleblower Rights Poster
Governor Newsom signed AB 2299 which requires all California employers to prominently display a new whistleblower rights poster in the workplace effective January 1, 2025.