I asked Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine, integrated with OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology, how to tell if a lawyer is worth hiring. Here’s what you need to know.
A vindictive employer allegedly issued a former employee his final check in the form of pennies — $915.00 worth. Because it was late, if it had been in California, the former employee would have been owed late waiting time penalties for the late final payment. Yoon Law, APC fights for wage earners for issues like late final pay.
Tyson Foods, known as the nation’s largest meat and poultry producer, is in hot water after its managers and supervisors have been accused of placing bets on the number of workers who would catch COVID-19.
Walmart Auto Care Centers closed early this year, affecting its U.S. customers’ ability to utilize their lifetime tire balance and rotation policies. Yoon Law, APC has filed a class action federal lawsuit on behalf of those customers.
Every person has the right to be paid for their labor: 100%. In the case, Owino et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc., the plaintiffs are civil immigration detainees who have filed a lawsuit to end CoreCivic’s illegal practices of forced labor.
The Senate just passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which will provide many employee rights once the President signs it, as he is expected to do. However, it doesn’t apply to independent contractors. So far, there seems to be little being considered politically that would help or protect workers classified as independent contractors. That said…
The Department of Labor has proposed some new regulations that would allow full-service restaurants to pool tips between servers, bartenders, and other tipped employees with back-of-house staffers.
Kenneth Yoon has been fighting for plaintiffs’ rights in various class action lawsuits for over 20 years. The Daily Journal recognized two of his accomplishments this year: securing a $6 million verdict against Wal-Mart, and obtaining a published appellate decision protecting beer delivery drivers.
But still models today (as well as a lot of other workers) don’t get paid on time. In the modeling industry, as others, the excuse is I’ll pay you when I get paid. But that’s not your problem. When people take extra risk, they should get extra pay.
You’re working as fast as you can so you can keep your job (read: not get written up falling behind the required breakneck pace). It’s no surprise you’ll eventually get hurt. When you report the injury, you get written up for ‘not working safe’.
The jury found that Wal-Mart had failed in its obligation to relieve its employees of all duty, relinquish control over their activities, and permit them a reasonable opportunity to take an uninterrupted 30-minute break, without impeding or discouraging them from doing so.
Indeed, the original bill’s purpose was “to allow working parents to volunteer time in the classroom, school library or computer lab, attend field trips, or sit on the school site council.”
