Roger R Labor and Employment Law Blog

Orange County wage and hour attorney represent clients who do not receive proper compensation from employers.... Read More

By Martha Neil

Employers have always been warned of the potential
financial consequences regarding employee legal protection, however Congress is
soon expected to enact a bill that would make it a federal offense to
misclassify employees as independent contractors.

The proposed Employee Misclassification Prevention Act is
expected to be... Read More

By Student Activists

After being subjected to an unannounced pay cut from
$10/hr to $8/hr, 2 Cal Poly Pomona student marketing representatives were fired
by their employer, Mountain View-based Uloop.com, for attempting to organize a
worker’s union. The students were fired from their part-time jobs 20minutes
after posting a message in a online inter-company forum announcing their
intention to form a union and have... Read More

By Steven Greenhouse

According to a new study conducted in the first half of
2008 by the National Employment Law Project focused on workers in New York, Los
Angeles and Chicago, low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay
and are often paid less than the minimum wage. The breakdown of those surveyed
was 39% illegal immigrants, 31% legal immigrants and 30% native-born Americans.
In surveying various... Read More

By David Madland, Karla
Walter

Increasingly, the right of workers to form unions to
collectively bargain with their employer is becoming an employee concern. More
than half of US employees say they would vote to join a union if they could,
however they are prevented from doing so within the private sector. Many find
that employer intimidation or corrupt election methods are the source of the
dilemma and... Read More

By John W. Schoen

Recent government data on worker productivity indicates
that most Americans are likely to be working harder and putting in longer hours
for the same pay. The Labor Department has stated that the American workforce
produced 6.4% more of the goods in the second quarter of this year compared to
one year ago, yet the unit labor costs (amount employers are paid) fell by
5.8%.

... Read More