Fact Sheets and Other Self-Help Tools
Our comprehensive fact sheets and self-help tools may have the information you need about your rights and steps you can take to protect them. If you want further information or assistance, see Other Resources or contact the Workers’ Rights Clinics.
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Hiring / Termination / Job Loss +
- Lost Your Job? Your Rights and Benefits printer-friendly version
- Wrongful Termination printer-friendly version
- Quitting Your Job printer-friendly version
- Overview of Unemployment Benefits printer-friendly version
- Eligibility for Unemployment Insurance After Being Fired printer-friendly version
- Eligibility for Unemployment Insurance after Quitting printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence: Unemployment Insurance if You Must Quit printer-friendly version
- Health Insurance After Employment: COBRA printer-friendly version
- Getting Your Final Paycheck printer-friendly version
- Severance Pay - Release of Legal Claims printer-friendly version
- Employer Bankruptcy, Sale, or Abandonment printer-friendly version
- Your Rights During a Mass Layoff or Closing printer-friendly version
- Credit Reports and Background Checks printer-friendly version
- Criminal Records and Employment printer-friendly version
- Hiring a Labor or Employment Lawyer printer-friendly version
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Pay and Hours +
- Overview of Wage and Hour Law printer-friendly version
- Changes in Pay printer-friendly version
- Comp Time printer-friendly version
- Deductions from Pay printer-friendly version
- Getting Your Final Paycheck printer-friendly version
- Severance Pay printer-friendly version
- Overtime Pay printer-friendly version
- Pay Days, Late Pay, Bounced Paychecks printer-friendly version
- Exemptions from Overtime Pay printer-friendly version
- Minimum Wage printer-friendly version
- Reimbursement of Expenses printer-friendly version
- Uniforms, Tools and Equipment printer-friendly version
- Tips and Tip Pooling printer-friendly version
- Vacation and Sick Pay printer-friendly version
- Meal Breaks and Rest Breaks printer-friendly version
- Alternative Workweeks printer-friendly version
- Do-It-Yourself Recovery of Unpaid Wages printer-friendly version
- Collecting Your Judgment: A Step-by-Step Approach printer-friendly version
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Benefits +
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Leaves / Time Off from Work +
- Paid Family Leave printer-friendly version
- Family/Medical Leave: Your Own Serious Health Condition printer-friendly version
- Family/Medical Leave: Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Bonding printer-friendly version
- Family/Medical Leave: Caring for a Family Member printer-friendly version
- State Disability Insurance: An Overview printer-friendly version
- Hiring a Labor or Employment Lawyer printer-friendly version
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Unemployment Insurance +
- Unemployment Insurance: Overview of Unemployment Benefits printer-friendly version
- A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Unemployment Insurance Benefits printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Eligibility After Being Fired From A Job printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Eligibility After Quitting a Job printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Continued Eligibility Requirements—Ability to Work printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Continued Eligibility Requirements—Availability for Work printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Continued Eligibility Requirements—Reporting Wages Earned printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Past Earnings and Weekly Benefits printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Work Search and Suitable Work printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Overpayment printer-friendly version
- Unemployment Insurance: Temporary Workers printer-friendly version
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Health and Safety / Job Injuries +
- Health and Safety Protections in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Handbook: Helping Injured Employees Return to Work (pdf)
- Best Practices in Returning an Injured Employee to Work (pdf)
- Workers’ Compensation (CA): Overview printer-friendly version
- Workers’ Compensation (CA): Medical Care printer-friendly version
- Workers’ Compensation (CA): Temporary Disability Benefits printer-friendly version
- Workers’ Compensation (CA): Permanent Disability Benefits printer-friendly version
- Workers’ Compensation (CA): Federal Employees printer-friendly version
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Discrimination / Harassment +
- Discrimination and Harassment in Employment printer-friendly version
- Sexual Harassment printer-friendly version
- Pregnancy Discrimination printer-friendly version
- Rights for Breastfeeding Mothers: Lactation Accommodation and Discrimination printer-friendly version
- Religious Discrimination in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Sexual Orientation Discrimination printer-friendly version
- Gender Identity Discrimination: Employment Rights for Transgender Workers printer-friendly version
- Language Discrimination printer-friendly version
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Wrongful Termination printer-friendly version
- Employment Rights of Undocumented Workers printer-friendly version
- Hiring a Labor or Employment Lawyer printer-friendly version
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Disability Rights +
- Disabilities in the Workplace: An Introduction to State and Federal Laws printer-friendly version
- Disabilities in the Workplace: Reasonable Accommodations printer-friendly version
- Disabilities in Higher Education printer-friendly version
- State Disability Insurance: An Overview printer-friendly version
- Family/Medical Leave: Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Bonding printer-friendly version
- Family/Medical Leave: Your Own Serious Health Condition printer-friendly version
- Sample Letter from Health Care Provider Supporting Need for Leave of Absence Under ADA or FEHA Word format
- Sample Letter from Health Care Provider Supporting Need for Accommodation Other Than Leave of Absence Under ADA or FEHA Word format
- Hiring a Labor or Employment Lawyer printer-friendly version
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Privacy +
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Language Rights +
- Language Discrimination printer-friendly version
- Employment Rights of Undocumented Workers printer-friendly version
- Discrimination and Harassment in Employment printer-friendly version
- Sample Letter: English-Only Rules in the Workplace Word format
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Domestic Violence and Employment +
- Domestic Violence: Disabilities in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence: Guaranteed Leave to Go to Court & Obtain Services printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence: Taking Leave For Your Own Health Condition printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence: Taking Leave To Care For A Family Member printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence: Paid Family Leave Benefits printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence: Unemployment Insurance If You Must Quit printer-friendly version
- Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault & Work: Survivors with a Criminal Record printer-friendly version
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Labor Unions +
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Employment Rights of Ex-Offenders +
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Types of Workers +
- 12 Facts About Employment Law printer-friendly version
- Ind. Contractor or Employee? How You Should Be Classified printer-friendly version
- Military Reservists: Job and Benefit Protection printer-friendly version
- Employment Rights of Undocumented Workers printer-friendly version
- Government Employees printer-friendly version
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More Topics +
- 12 Facts About Employment Law printer-friendly version
- Ind. Contractor or Employee? How You Should Be Classified printer-friendly version
- Personnel Files printer-friendly version
- Criminal Records and Employment printer-friendly version
- Employment Rights of Undocumented Workers printer-friendly version
- Government Employees printer-friendly version
- Military Reservists: Job and Benefit Protection printer-friendly version
- Assault and Battery in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Workplace Defamation printer-friendly version
- Fraud or Misrepresentation in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- False Imprisonment in the Workplace printer-friendly version
- Anti-War Protests by Employees printer-friendly version
- Immigration-Related Protests by Employees printer-friendly version
- Rights for Breastfeeding Mothers: Lactation Accommodation and Discrimination printer-friendly version
- Hiring a Labor or Employment Lawyer printer-friendly version
- Arbitration of Employment Claims printer-friendly version