Need to Know Your Employee Rights?

Matern Law Group, PC is an employment law firm based in Central California and other locations around California.

All employees have basic rights in the workplace — including the right to privacy, fair compensation, and freedom from discrimination.

A job applicant also has certain rights even prior to being hired as an employee. Those rights include the right to be free from discrimination based on age, gender, race, national origin, or religion during the hiring process. For example, a prospective employer cannot ask a job applicant certain family-related questions during the hiring process.

In most states, employees have a right to privacy in the workplace. This right to privacy applies to the employee’s personal possessions, including handbags or briefcases, storage lockers accessible only by the employee, and private mail addressed only to employee. Employees may also have a right to privacy in their telephone conversations or voicemail messages. However, employees have very limited rights to privacy in their e-mail messages and Internet usage while using the employer’s computer system.

There are certain pieces of information that an employer may not seek out concerning a potential job applicant or employee. An employer may not conduct a credit or background check of an employee or prospective employee unless the employer notifies the individual in writing and receives permission to do so.

Our experienced employment lawyers have successfully represented plaintiffs against large corporations in a number of high profile individual lawsuits and class actions but not limited to the following:

• Sexual Harassment
• Discrimination
• Wrongful Termination & Retaliation
• Failure to Provide Meal & Rest Breaks
• Failure to Pay Overtime Wages
• Failure to pay Minimum Wage

Matern Law Group, PC is committed to obtaining justice for you. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional legal services to our clients.