Legal Question in Employment Law in California

If you are an employee and not an independent contractor, your employer must not require you to purchase anything for your work, must pay overtime, if applicable, pay for meetings and drive time (not from your home to and from office) for driving to different customer locations. Call an employment law attorney to discuss.

Your first step is to go try to file a claim for unpaid benefits and wages with the Labor Commissioner office local to you. Then you may hire an attorney to represent you in the hearings and trial of your claim, if you choose. Your other option is to hire an attorney to file a lawsuit directly in court for your claim. That makes sense if the value of your claims more than a couple thousand dollars. Your attorney fees are recoverable if you win, and many employment lawyers will consider taking such cases on partial contingency rather than pure hourly or flat fee. If serious about hiring counsel to help in this, and if this is in SoCal courts, feel free to contact me. I�ll be happy to help fight and get the best outcome possible,