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Employment lawyers handle cases involving problems at work.  This is a very broad area of the law that covers a multitude of types of cases.  In fact, some employment attorneys specialize only in certain types of employment issues, such as workers compensation cases or wrongful termination cases.  However, most Newport Beach employment lawyers are able to handle a wide variety of employment-related cases and can help you recover damages for whatever particular problems you have suffered.

Employment attorneys in Newport Beach are experts in both the federal and state statutes regarding employment.  Most employers fall under both federal and state law when it comes to hiring and firing, payment of wages, and treatment of employees.  Depending on the type of company for which you work, your employer may also have to meet health and safety standards set down by the federal government or the state of California, or provide certain products or services such as uniforms or equipment to its employees free of charge.

In order to know exactly what an employer is required to provide, employment lawyers in Newport Beach must study a large body of law, including laws affecting wage and hour employment issues, harassment issues, and unsafe work environment issues.  These laws are complicated and most average people do not have the knowledge or skills to handle these cases on their own.  It takes the expertise of a professional employment lawyer to understand and utilize the laws that protect workers in the workplace.

For example, unemployment law has changed greatly in the last few years.  Due to so many people losing their jobs so quickly in the recessionary economy, the government temporarily changed the rules regarding unemployment.  These rules are designed to protect people while they look for work in a difficult market.  Many people did not realize that unemployment law had changed or exactly how it now worked to protect those who had lost their jobs.  Therefore, some people were denied rights and benefits that should have been theirs.  If these people had consulted an employment attorney, they might have benefited from the knowledge that more was owed to them.

Another example of the good work of employment lawyers is when they bring out into the open cases in which employees are intimidated and frightened of "whistleblowing," or telling the truth about their employers.  With the protection of a good employment attorney, these workers may not be afraid to tell the truth and help protect their fellow employees from unethical or dangerous behavior on the part of their bosses.