Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Withholding my final paycheck

I am an independent contractor providing discrete trial services to children with Autism. Due to continued verbal abuse, I resigned from his agency in June, 2001. My final work date was July 6, 2001. I turned in a timesheet July 31,2001. I received a letter August 8, 2001, informing me that he is withholding my paycheck because I did not conform to his wishes. The fact is, he is unable to service a client because he has no one qualified to replace me; he has replaced me with his wife who is not qualified provide discrete trials to the child and I refused to assist her with training (ethically, it would take months to train her). Rather than to send her to school, he is threatening me to produce a logbook or to train her.

In the meantime, I am being charged $200.00 late fee on my rent, not to mention any other late fee charges incurred by creditors.

Being an independent contractor, do I have any recourse?

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