If your employer terminates you for discussing failure to pay the minimum wage, you have a wrongful termination claim.

You should file a complaint with the Los Angeles Housing Department.

File an illegal eviction complaint with the Los Angeles Housing Department.

Yes. California law's prohibition on gender based discrimination does not apply to same-sex sharied living arrangements in a single family home.

Unless you have paid leave or accrued paid sick, your employer is not obligated to pay you for your sick time. Your employer cannot refuse to let...

You should be entitled to substantial relocation assistance, disgorgement of illegally collected rent, reasonable attorney's and, if you can prove...

First, the lease should be void as illegal, since there is no certificate of occupancy. Second, you not immediately move out. You are probably...

I would like to add to Mr. Busch's excellent answer, that you should file a tenant harassment complaint with the City of Los Angeles Housing...

File a reduction in services complaint with the Los Angeles Housing Department.

The employer likely has 4 years to file suit to recoup the money under a common law claim for money had and received.