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Working in California? Info you need to know. - GrandmaC


Posted: Mar 19, 2011

If you are an employee working in California with an employer in another State you need to be aware of the State of California Labor Laws. I worked for a company in FL and worked overtime for several months. They did not want to pay me time and a half. I made a phone call to the Labor Department and had my back overtime pay and penalties paid within one week. I had the same come up when I was laid off last month. I waited to get my last check for two weeks and then remembered about the California State Laws that says you must be paid within 24 hours or penalties start to acrue. I called the Labor Department and within one week I received not only my back pay but the penalties (more than my original pay) have been paid.

So, if you are working in Californiia (or any State outside of your own) as an employee, it is important that you research the laws of your State.

I miss the advanced protections of California. I gave them - Pragmatist

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up casually when we moved to the Deep South, but what I've seen happen to unfortunates since has made me aware of the substantial value of what we've lost. There's a whole lot to like here, and I just trust we'll never regret making this our home. We don't have a church to go begging even modest short-term charity from, nor would we care to, even if begging here were an adequate substitute for standing on our rights there. (It's emphatically not.)

Insightful - and

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those who believe what is going on in the Midwest with the Gov and public employees is good, may or may not be correct. Only time will tell.


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