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As an hourly worker, you deserve compensation for your time on the job.

Discrimination of any sort in the workplace isn’t acceptable. For many people, discrimination comes because of something they don’t have any control over.

If you make your living delivering food and drinks to people’s doors, you may have found that the living you make is less than you’d hoped for.

Numerous laws at both the federal and state levels protect workers from discrimination. An employer should not base their decisions about your career on your age, your religion, your sex or other protected characteristics, like medical conditions.

As an hourly worker in California, you only receive compensation for the time when you are present at your place of employment performing work. Unlike a salaried employee, you cannot always predict what your income will be from week to week if your schedule changes.

Both federal and state laws protect your right to take unpaid leave in certain circumstances. To qualify for that leave, you need to have worked for your employer for long enough, and the company itself also needs to be a certain size.

It’s common practice to look for a job while you are still employed. After all, no one wants to jump into the uncertainties of unemployment with both feet. Besides that, lack of career growth or unfavorable conditions at your workplace may lead you to look for other job opportunities while holding on to your current job.

People often think of sexual harassment as inappropriate touching; however, that only makes up a portion of sexual harassment cases in the workforce.

Federal law establishes the right to overtime pay, and California has state laws that entitle workers to overtime wages in several additional scenarios.

A coworker asks you if you’d like to go on a date sometime. You’re not interested and you tell them so, but it gets you thinking. Was that appropriate behavior for the workplace?