Riverside · Inland Empire
Employment lawyer for Riverside and the Inland Empire
The Inland Empire moves the country's goods. Distribution centres in Moreno Valley, Perris, Jurupa Valley and Fontana, the yards along the 60 and the 215, agriculture still working the edges of the county.
It is also where the wage cases are, because the work is hourly, the shifts are long, and the margins are measured in minutes.
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Heat, and the rule most people have never heard of
This is the part worth reading even if you never call anyone.
California has an indoor heat standard. When an indoor workplace reaches a set temperature, the employer owes cool-down areas, water, rest and a written plan. It applies to warehouses, and in this county it applies for months at a time.
Outdoor work has had its own heat rules for years: shade, water, mandatory recovery breaks, and training.
If you have worked a summer in a metal building off the 215 you already know whether your employer followed any of that. Failing to is a violation in itself, and it tends to sit alongside the wage problems rather than apart from them.
Where warehouse pay goes wrong
Time before the clock and after it. Security screening, bag checks, waiting for a scanner. If you are on the premises and under their control, that is usually time they owe you.
Quotas that eat the break. A rest break that exists on the board but cannot be taken without falling behind the rate is not a rest break. California has specific rules about warehouse quotas and what has to be disclosed about them.
Drivers told they are contractors. Since AB 5 the test is demanding and the hiring business has to prove all three parts. Owning the truck does not settle it.
Temp and staffing agencies. Being placed by an agency does not mean only the agency is responsible. In California the business where you actually work can be on the hook too, which matters when the agency disappears.
Riverside has its own courthouse and its own pace
Riverside County Superior Court is not Los Angeles. Different filing, different calendar, different timetable to settlement.
I take these cases from Beverly Hills, which means you are not driving to me for the ordinary parts: the first call is a phone call, documents move electronically, and I come to you or to the court when being there matters.
What I handle here
Unpaid overtime and wage claims · Wrongful termination and retaliation · Discrimination and harassment
Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris, Corona, Jurupa Valley, Eastvale, Norco, Hemet, Menifee, Temecula and Murrieta.
Deadlines
Wage claims reach back years rather than months, which is why the totals surprise people. The day you call decides how far back the recovery can reach, and every month you wait is a month that drops off the far end.
Retaliation for raising any of this is unlawful, and if it happened the firing may be worth more than the wages.
What it costs
Nothing to talk to me. If I take it, you pay nothing unless money is recovered for you, and case costs come out of the recovery rather than your pocket.
Get in touch
Name, a number, one sentence about the job and what's missing. I'll call you back.
Sending this form doesn't make me your lawyer, and nothing protects a filing deadline until we've both signed a written agreement.
Free consultation
Tell me what happened
Ten minutes on the phone is usually enough for me to tell you whether you have a case. If you do not, I will say so on the call.