Sacramento Employment Lawyer | Arkady Itkin
Effective Representation In Employment and Wrongful Termination Cases for Workers and Businesses
I am amazed by the number of calls we get from doctors, nurses and nursing assistants about retaliation at Kaiser Sacramento, and all around with remarkably similar retaliation complaints and concerns of being written up for no reason or otherwise set up for termination and actually being fired, once they complain about any kind of Read More …
One common question employees ask is whether they can be forced to work overtime by their employer. The video below answer this question and also provides other useful tip related to this issue. https://vimeo.com/134523697
One of the reasons that an employer can legally deny a particular reasonable accommodation to an employee under ADA / FEHA is if providing that accommodation imposes an “undue hardship” on the employer’s operations. However, many employers misunderstand this legal term. They think that they simply can say that because it’s too hard or too Read More …
Plaintiff Joseph Snead worked as a custodian for the Chino Valley Unified School District for 16 years at an elementary school. In 2010, he sustained a back injury which prevented him from using ladders at work. He claimed that the use of the ladder was very rare and requested various accommodations for his back injury. Read More …
Cal. Government Code section 12940(j)(1) prohibits harassment of an employee based on a physical disability or a medical condition. Harassment focuses on situations in which the social environment of the workplace becomes intolerable because the harassment (whether verbal, physical or visual) communicates an offensive message to the harassed employee. This includes disability harassment at work. Read More …
One of the most common disabilities that many administrative and clerical workers develop at workplace is carpal tunnel syndrome or tendinitis. This usually results from excessive and/or repetitive typing or other desk jobs that involve repetitive movement. The law recognizes the carpal tunnel syndrome is a disability entitling an employee to a reasonable accommodation, if available, under Read More …
Recently, the Court of Appeal reiterated in Touchstone Television Productions v Superior Court (2012), that not renewing an employee’s contract cannot be considered a wrongful termination. This is because, among other reasons, employment for a fixed period of time is terminated automatically at the time that contract expires. Thus, the fact that the employer decided not Read More …
A “no fault” attendance policy gives employees a certain number of days that they can miss or be late, which are also known as “occurrences” or “occasions” without facing discipline. When the number of such days reaches a certain level without a certain time period, the employee begins to incur disciplinary action, including write-ups, suspension Read More …
