Experience in a variety of employee-employer disputes
You will find an employment attorney’s firm most valuable if it has significant experience handing a broad range of employment issues in San Diego’s diverse economy. The Law Offices of Paul D. Jackson has decades of experience helping San Diego employees deal with employment issues such as:
Discrimination based on sex, age, race, national origin, sexual orientation or pregnancy: An employee can be a plaintiff or defendant in many types of discrimination cases. The sheer complexity and unfolding nature of discrimination laws mean that there are many employment attorneys in San Diego who claim expertise in this area. The Law Offices of Paul D. Jackson has experience in nuanced issues such as the following:
- Defining the difference between harassment and discrimination whether based on age, race, national origin, gender or orientation
- How the burden of pursuing a claim falls on the victim
- What the employer’s responsibilities are in preventing, investigating, and remedying charges
- Valid and invalid defenses to charges
- Statutes of limitation and other deadlines for filing claims
- Proof of client’s claims despite a lack of hard evidence
- Calculating appropriate damages
Wage and hour law or other labor code violations: Employee’s rights to compensation in the form of wages, benefits, overtime, vacation, bonuses, and tips are all subject to legal definition as are the issues surrounding lunch and rest breaks, pay periods, the timely receipt of final pay, expense reimbursements, travel and exempt status.
Wrongful termination, wrongful demotion and failures to hire or promote: Adverse employment actions such as these are illegal if they are based on an employee’s membership in a protected class. There are many protected classes based on factors such as age, race, and sex as well as an employee’s insisting that the employer comply with the law, whistle-blowing, the filing of workers’ compensation claims, etc.
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