It is deceptively easy to make mistakes on your résumé and exceptionally difficult to repair the damage once a prospective employer receives it. So prevention is critical, especially if you’ve never written one before. Here are the most common pitfalls and how you can avoid them. 1. Typos and Read more…
Vaping is the use of an e-cigarette – a battery-operated, pen-shaped device that turn flavored nicotine into a vapor that users inhale. Because the vapor does not contain tobacco and is smokeless, it is not prohibited by California’s statewide ban on smoking tobacco in the workplace. Only three states – Read more…
Most companies have policies that address use of the company’s email system. However, many companies have no policy regarding employees accessing their personal email ;accounts from work, other than blanket policies that prohibit personal use of the Internet while working. At first blush, it might seem like overkill to limit Read more…
In California, all employers must meet workplace posting obligations. Workplace postings are usually available at no cost from the requiring agency. The Department of Industrial Relations requires employers to post information related to wages, hours and working conditions in an area frequented by employees where it may be easily read Read more…
Workplace investigations are becoming a more and more regular task for Human Resource Departments for businesses, big and small. Yet, no matter how commonplace they have become, there is still an art to doing it correctly. First and foremost, it is important that they are conducted neutrally and consistently, no Read more…
Section 14 of the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order 7-2001 for the mercantile industry states that “[a]ll working employees shall be provided with suitable seats when the nature of the work reasonably permits the use of seats.” Although this wage order has rarely been used, as of late there has Read more…
No Negative Treatment An employee is entitled to take time off for jury duty or for a court appearance as a witness as required by law if he or she gives the employer reasonable notice, and may not be discriminated against for doing so. (Labor Code § 230(a)-(b).) An employee Read more…
An employer may be liable for statements made to a prospective employee during recruitment on which the employee relies. (See, e.g., Lazar v. Superior Court (1996) 12 Cal.4th 631; Helmer v. Bingham Toyota Isuzu (2005) 129 Cal.App.4th 1121; Toscano v. Greene Music (2004) 124 Cal.App.4th 685). It is actually a Read more…
Simas & Associates, Ltd. is now offering Counsel-of-Record Services for all of our working professional and business clients. This varied service area offers continued support to individuals in complying with their professional, legal, and business obligations in the state of California. More often than you think, businesses and working professionals Read more…