According to a report last year by CareerBuilder, research conducted on behalf of the site shows 78 percent of American workers live paycheck-to-paycheck. The number breaks down further: 38 percent responded they sometimes live paycheck-to-paycheck, 17 percent said usually and 23 percent answered always. The overall percentage goes up for…
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Former Disney Employee Sues for Discrimination
Our employment lawyers know how important it is for companies to have both strong anti-discrimination policies and enforcement of those policies. Not only are acts of discrimination against protected groups illegal, but they are also just plain bad business. Everyone wants to feel safe going to work, and no one…
Tension Over California Bill That Aims to Prevent Firing Workers Over Communist Affiliation
Little Saigon is a neighborhood that is south of Los Angeles that is home to many people of Vietnamese heritage. Many of the Vietnamese immigrants who came to America and settled in Little Saigon are very much against the communist party, since the communists assumed control of their homeland following…
Facebook Aims to Hire 3,000 Workers to Fight “Streaming Violence”
Since Facebook introduced its live stream feature on its incredibly popular social media application, people have been recording many different aspects of their daily lives and posting them to their Facebook walls. In some of these cases, we see people ranting about politics, or perhaps someone will post a video…
Farmers Fear Immigration Raids Also
Since President Donald Trump has assumed office, he has followed through on his controversial plan to deport as many undocumented immigrants from the country as possible. While he stressed that it would only be criminals who would be deported, the relatively loose definition of what a criminal is in terms…
SuperShuttle Files Lawsuit in California Over Worker Classification
According to a recent news feature from the Los Angeles Times, SuperShuttle has filed a lawsuit in California to get all of its many drivers classified as independent contractors. There are a variety of reasons for this, but it is primarily because company leaders do not want to have to…
California Farmworkers’ Union Brings Fight to DC
California has a very diverse economy, and this is one of the reasons it is such a great place to live. In terms of jobs, there are a variety of different sectors and opportunities not available to residents of other states. Not only do we have the world’s leading computer…