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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

California Workplace Rights - Is your emploer treating you fairly | Initiative Legal Group


Do you think your employer is taking advantage of you and violating your rights?
Often times employees allow themselves to be mistreated because they are in fear of being reprimanded, loosing their job or simply because they do not know what their rights are.
The above infographic was created for workers in the state of California, including you, to help you determine if you are not being treated fairly. Walk through the graphic and if you answer yes to any of the possble senarios then you might have a case.
The attorneys at Initiative Legal Group have been fighting for the rights of employees, consumers and people just like you since 2006. We have won contested certification in 20 class actions and have settled 53 class actions. We believe that all workers should get their fair pay and treatment. We fight for it.
If you think you might have a case then call or email us to explore the ways in which ILG can assist you.
info@initiativelegal.com, 310.556.5637
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

LINKEDIN HIT WITH CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT FOR ITS JOB REFERENCE TOOL | Initiative Legal Group

The below article is originally posted on Fastcompany.com by Alice Truong. It reads…
A class-action lawsuit in California accuses the social network LinkedIn of violating federal consumer protection laws by selling users’ employment history to potential employers without their consent.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in a federal court in Northern California takes issue with LinkedIn’s job reference tool, which is available to employers who subscribe to its premium features. LinkedIn can generate reference reports that include the names, locations, and employment history of people who have worked with a given job seeker. The information in these reference reports, the lawsuit points out, could potentially be inaccurate. Applicants are not told when a potential employer runs a reference report.
The lawsuit states:
As such, any potential employer can anonymously dig into the employment history of any LinkedIn member, and make hiring and firing decisions based upon the information they gather, without the knowledge of the member, and without any safeguards in place as to the accuracy of the information that the potential employer has obtained.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Fallen Class-Action Lawyer Mel Weiss to Sell Picasso Works | Initiative Legal Group

The below article is by   from bloomberg.com. It reads...
Melvyn Weiss, the millionaire class-action attorney who was felled by illegal kickbacks, is selling more than 140 lithographs, etchings and other works of art by Pablo Picasso.
Weiss and his wife, Barbara, have pledged the artwork to the financial services unit of New York-based Sotheby’s, according to a Sept. 23 New York state regulatory filing. Barbara Weiss, in an interview last week, said the couple planned to put the art up for auction. She declined to comment further.
Collecting Picassos was such a passion for Weiss, 79, that the pursuit played a role in the 2007 criminal case that federal prosecutors brought against him and other founders of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, once the nation’s largest class-action securities law firm. The artwork he’s now selling ranges from 23-carat gold figures to a linoleum cut titled “Grand Tete de Femme,” the first of many Picassos acquired by the former litigator.
Weiss declined to comment when reached by telephone, saying the sale is a “personal matter.” Mary Bartow, the head of Sotheby’s prints department, said the auction house doesn’t comment on or identify specific consignors.
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