San Diego, CA
Employment and labor Lawyer at San Diego, CA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Discrimination ... +3 more
OUTCOME: $1.13 Million Judgment
Employer paid longtime employee, a seamstress, on a piece rate basis. Compensation did not even cover the minimum wage. Employer subjected seamstress and her coworkers to numerous wage and hour violati ... ons.
OUTCOME: City Manager withdrew proposed action to terminate City Employee and reinstated her employment after Skelly proceedings.
City employee was issued a notice of proposed termination in connection with deficiencies the City Police Department perceived in her work performance. The employee retained my firm to represent her i ... n subsequent proceedings pursuant to Skelly v. State Personnel Board, 15 Cal. 3d 194 (1975).
OUTCOME: Compelled reasonable workplace accommodation of employee's physical disabilities. Employee also received a substantial financial settlement and continued her employment.
Employer repeatedly discriminated against supervisor employee on basis of disability and failed to reasonably accommodate her, citing rigid job description requirements.
OUTCOME: Substantial financial settlement during pre-hearing MSC which included retraction of derogatory items from personnel file
Agency employee subjected to multiple acts of discrimination based on reprisal for prior EEO activity, in violation of Title VII.
OUTCOME: Prevailed at the appeals hearing by demonstrating alleged positive drug test may have been tainted, motivated by unlawful discriminatory animus. Nurse employee was awarded unemployment benefits.
Nurse employee appealed EDD's denial of unemployment compensation benefits on the basis of hospital's representation that employee failed a random drug test.