Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I currently work for an LLC in California at $16.50 an hour. The Part Owner of the company, The CEO's husband, started a Non Profit Organization that owns an online shopping cart to sell products. They are contracting out all of the employees of the LLC to run the Non-Profrit. The expectation is that all of the employees will be handling everything involved in the NPO and the LLC. So my work load has doubled for the same amount of pay and the LLC is planning to charge the NPO for our hours?

My question is do I now work for 2 companies now? Do I have to work for both companies? Am I justified in requesting a raise? Do I have any legal recourse if my employment is terminated for either requesting a pay raise or intimating my desire to be an exclusive employer to the LLC?


Asked on 6/01/12, 9:05 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jacob Kiani Law Office of Jacob I. Kiani

You don't work for that non-profit just because your boss' husband started it. You were not hired by the non-profit, and you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Are you an hourly, non-exempt employee? I'm assuming they are not making you work additional hours without overtime pay, correct? Your workload may have doubled but you are still working the same amount of hours. If the company you work for asks you to do work for the non-profit, I don't see any reason why you could refuse to do so. Yes, if you want a raise, go ahead and ask for it and give this as the reason, but if they fire you for it, (a) they wouldn't tell you that's why they were firing you; and (b) you would most likely have no legal recourse.

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Answered on 6/01/12, 9:52 am


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