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The law is always changing. Each year, judges render decisions and legislators pass bills that change the legal landscape of California.

Attitudes are changing, and more people than ever feel free to challenge conventional notions of gender identity and gender expression.

Your employer needs to treat you fairly. According to the Labor Commissioner’s Office, employees in California should not exceed 8 hours per workday and 40 hours per workweek. These are the legal numbers in most industries.

Despite the existence of entire television shows centered around office dating relationships, some businesses will prohibit dating between employees.

When most people think about common types of theft, they think of bank robberies or home invasions.

For close to 100 years, California has had a prevailing wage law that sets the minimum wage that workers must be paid if they are working on a construction project that’s paid for, at least in part, with federal, state and/or local government funding.

Sexual harassment isn’t always about flirtation or a supervisor soliciting you. Sometimes the sexual harassment a worker experiences on the job involves a hostile work environment.

One thing that you find when sexual harassment begins to come to light is that people may not have reported it as often as you would’ve assumed.

As with many other jurisdictions across the US, California is an at-will employment state. Generally, this means that employers can let go of workers without providing them with a reason. This can also provide employees with a little more flexibility in terms of moving from one job to another.

There are certainly cases in which sexual harassment does have to do with an attraction between the two parties – or at least a one-way attraction.