Employment and the Workplace issues
including wage and hour, discrimination and retaliation
Advancing Justice-LA provides legal services to individuals who are experiencing problems in employment and in the workplace, including wage-and-hour, discrimination, and retaliation issues.
We may be able to assist you if:
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Your employer has not properly paid you for your work,
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Your employer has treated you differently than other workers because of your race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or another characteristic, or
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Your employer has fired you, reduced your hours, or otherwise treated you poorly because you stood up for your rights or the rights of others in the workplace.
Please call our legal hotlines if you need legal help for any of these problems.
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Highlights of Our Work
In 2013, Advancing Justice-LA joined the Wage Justice Center in representing a class of more than 400 Latino and Korean port truck drivers that had been misclassified as independent contractors by a family of related corporate entities that stole millions of dollars from them. The drivers worked up to 16 hours a day, six days a week for poverty wages, which took a tremendous toll on their health and family relationships. The port trucking enterprise used corporate shell games and a bankruptcy filing to escape responsibility for paying drivers their hard-earned wages, but we doggedly followed them into bankruptcy court and used novel theories to hold the asset-bearing companies responsible. The case settled for $5 million and sent a strong message to port trucking companies that they cannot profit on the backs of their drivers and use bankruptcy to escape their debts to drivers. |
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