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Orange County Employment Law Attorneys
Representing Misclassified Employees
Your Orange County, California, employer may have exploited you by misclassifying you as an "exempt" employee in order to avoid paying wages and benefits that you would have been entitled to if your job had been correctly classified. If your employer called you a "manager" but controlled your actions as if you were a regular hourly employee, contact us at Keegan & Baker, LLP. You may be entitled to compensation in the form of back pay for overtime and unpaid meal and rest breaks.
State and federal labor laws govern the number of hours an employee is expected to work in a day or in a week exist as public policy that seeks to protect workers. If your Orange County routinely skirted wage and hour laws by misclassifying you as a manager, a salesperson or an independent contractor, you owe it to yourself and to current and future employees at that workplace to determine whether your labor was exploited by way of misclassification of your job.
You may have been targeted in a misclassification scheme if any of the following applies to you:
- Your employer called you a manager or assistant manager, but assigned the same tasks to you that were assigned to other hourly employees. You were often asked to work longer than 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, but your employer did not pay you overtime.
- You work, or worked in an office, and performed routine daily tasks equivalent to those of hourly employees in the office. However, your job was misclassified as an "administrative assistant," and you were not allowed proper meals and rest times, and were denied overtime pay when staying late or working on weekends.
- You are or were a commissioned salesperson, but your employer did not take your commissions into account for overtime pay purposes, nor did your employer reimburse your car or cell phone expenses as should be done for commissioned sales personnel.
Our Orange County Employment Lawyers Represent Misclassified Employees
Talk to an Orange County employment law attorney at Keegan & Baker, LLP, if you suspect that your employer sought to avoid paying you overtime through the misclassification of your job. Contact us to schedule a no-obligation consultation. Learn about your wage and benefits rights and about how our lawyers may help you obtain compensation for pay that you were wrongfully denied through misclassification of your position. We have offices in Orange County and San Diego.
