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Mark Ramijak worked as an account executive for FileNet Corp. in Costa Mesa, a company that sells and services document management software. He claimed that FileNet owed him about $200,000 in commissions and bonus payments from sales he had made of software and maintenance service contracts—and he eventually took his pay gripe to the California […]
Under strict new rules adopted last year by the state Industrial Welfare Commission, you may be liable for a penalty of an additional hour’s pay for each day that you fail to provide a nonexempt employee with a required meal break, unless they’ve consented in writing to an on-duty meal period. Now three former employees […]
A Southern California jury has ordered an employer to pay $2,331,319 to two waitresses who said they were sexually harassed by other employees and then retaliated against after they complained. Rebecca Barklage and Malissa McCard worked at Birraporetti’s Restaurant in Costa Mesa. They claimed that the kitchen staff and several busboys repeatedly harassed them. One […]