Sacramento Employment Lawyer | Arkady Itkin
Effective Representation In Employment and Wrongful Termination Cases for Workers and Businesses
If you are a California state employee serving a probationary period, you do have important legal rights, which may protect you from being fired during probation. At the same time, those rights are considerably more limited than those enjoyed by employees who have successfully completed probation and obtained permanent status with the State of California Read More …
EERA section 3543.5(a), declares that it shall be “unlawful for a public school employer to impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwise to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by this chapter.” To establish a prima facie Read More …
One of the biggest mistakes I see small business owners make is using contracts with their customers that do not include a prevailing party attorney’s fees provision. This automatically puts them in a more vulnerable position with someone who, for whatever reason, decides not to pay for their work. Imagine you complete the work, send Read More …
CarlHR Case No.: 22-A-0037 is a classic example of misuse of AWOL termination statute by a public agency with regard to their employee. In that case, the employee was rightfully reinstated with backpay after being wrongfully AWOL separated. In the written decision overturning the termination, the ALJ noted that imposing unreasonably strict deadlines on the Read More …
This is rarely mentioned, but how you treat your manager and coworkers can have a real impact on what happens if a legal dispute ever arises during your employment with that company or after. Here’s the reality: being decent at work will never hurt your legal position—and it can quietly strengthen it in ways people Read More …
Many employers believe that because they are looking to hire an at-will employee, this means that they not only can hire and fire that employee for any reason or no reason, but they also can retract job offers already extended without any legal risks and consequences to them. This is often not true, and the Read More …
Below is an example of an evasive employer’s witness who refused over and over to answer a question to which there is only one obvious answer. These types of attempts to try to wiggle out of answering a simple question are going to look really bad and dishonest in front of the jury, when this Read More …
Ironically, one of the most common mistakes when starting a business with one or more business partners is not having a contract. Too many new business owners or start-up founders choose to agree on their terms of working together orally because they have known each other for a long time and believe that they would Read More …
Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for our office to get calls or emails from a person who has been pursuing or defending their case for some time, and who wants a second opinion or new legal representation, after they clearly have been taken advantage of by their present attorneys. They have typically been charged many hours Read More …