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California Wage and Hour Attorneys

Employees are increasingly asked to work longer hours and accomplish more while they are working. Employers want to squeeze more work out of their employees. Often the end result is the misclassification of employees as exempt from overtime when they are not, a failure to provide legally-mandated meal and rest breaks, demands to continue working off-the-clock, failure to pay overtime hours worked and a failure to provide accurate pay stubs showing the full amount of time worked, the accurate pay rate and the correct amount of wages earned.

At Litt, Estuar, Harrison & Kitson, LLP, in Los Angeles, California, we have extensive experience handling complex wage and hour claims against private and municipal employers. Often these violations of wage and hour laws affect large groups of employees - in these cases, we serve as counsel for class action lawsuits.

California Wage and Hour Law

Wage and hour rules are governed by the California Labor Code and the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Employers often violate three categories of the wage and hour requirements: unpaid wages, unpaid overtime wages, and failure to meet minimum wage requirements. Some of the common causes of wage and hour violations include:

Employees misclassified as "exempt" from receiving overtime pay.
Employees not provided an uninterrupted meal break within the first five hours of work.
Employer failed to provide ten minute breaks for every four hours of work.
Employer failed to provide paid time for tasks required to prepare for work.
Employer failed to provide a second meal break for shifts longer than ten hours.
Employer failed to ensure that employees being paid per-project were meeting minimum wage requirements.
Employer failed to provide proper pay stubs with all required information (generally including gross wages earned, total hours worked, number of piece-rate units earned and applicable piece-rate, all deductions, separately itemized, net wages, dates included in payroll period, employee's name and social security number, employer's name and address, and all applicable hourly rates during the payroll period).

Lawyers Handling Class Action Wage and Hour Claims

Our firm has the experience and resources to successfully handle class action wage and hour lawsuits. These cases are often extremely complex, involving interpretations of California Labor Code and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Since wage and hour claims and have a significant financial impact on businesses, employers often put a lot of resources into fighting wage and hour violation claims.

We are prepared to handle wage and hour litigation in state and federal courts as well as through the appellate process. If we are able to establish new law that creates systemic changes, that is all the better.

Contact Our California Wage and Hour Attorneys

If you believe that your employer has violated their obligation under the California Labor Code or the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, please contact us today.