California has always been a trailblazer. 
The latest new territory involves being the first state to raise hourly minimum wage rates to double digits – $10-an-hour by 2016, per a bill that recently received Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. In the interim, the rate will graduate to $9 hourly by next summer.
While this is good news, we fully anticipate this change will coincide with a rise in California wage and hour lawsuits.
It is one of the largest providers of elder care in the country.
Emeritus Senior Living facilities boast hundreds of locations across the country, thousands of workers and rake in millions in profits. 
And yet, as our Costa Mesa wage and hour dispute attorneys understand, when it came time to providing adequate compensation to those trusted to care for our most vulnerable citizens, the for-profit health care provider did everything it could to skirt employment laws and boost its bottom line.
A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of California workers employed at a popular, nationwide burger chain, accused of break and overtime violations.
This suit joins previous litigation filed on behalf of current and former employees of a Mexican fast food chain.
Our Costa Mesa overtime attorneys know that chain operations, particularly those that employ low-wage, low-skill workers, tend to be prone to this type of violation because they believe they can get away with it.
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