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Law Offices of Timothy Bowles, P.C.

This firm specializes in employment law and litigation for employers. Our goal is to enable clients to pursue their worthwhile ends by constructive and ethical means. We are committed to providing professional skills and results of the highest caliber.

This law practice represents employers in government agency actions and civil cases, including defense of workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. We have successfully handled matters alleging racial, religious, age and gender discrimination in the workplace. We also perform the preventative work of helping clients establish and maintain sensible workplace policies which promote staff initiative and company stability.

The firm also handles a wide range of civil litigation, including civil rights, contract and trade secret disputes. We have also handled civil suits against psychiatric abuse, including fraud, assault, and civil rights violations. In affiliation with Youth for Human Rights International and its African Human Rights Leadership Campaign, we also have a strong pro bono commitment to developing human rights education programs worldwide.

Only in rare instances does the firm represent employees in resolving workplace-related disputes. On inquiry from employees, the firm will apply its best efforts to refer them to other counsel that specialize in such representation.

Similarly, for specialty areas in which we do not practice, we refer inquiring public to other lawyers to outside the office with experience in those spheres. Such areas include but are not limited to family disputes, immigration, tax, intellectual property, and criminal matters.

Other than psychiatrically related work, this office does not handle personal injury claims.

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CALIFORNIA'S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS

AVOIDING RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE

PRE-EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECKS

RUDE, CRUDE AND SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE

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California's New Employment Laws - All California Employers Must Comply with New Laws Effective by 2010

California continues to be one of the leading workplace regulators. This article summarizes several principal new employment laws effective on or before January 1, 2010. If your company is located outside California, please note these laws as possible models for future regulation in your home states.

Flexibility Added to Alternative Workweek Schedules. California law authorizes alternative workweek schedules (AWS) of workdays exceeding eight hours with- out overtime pay if certain criteria are met. Classically, an AWS will be four 10-hour days, with three days off. Health care offices are common candidates for an AWS.

State Tax Withholdings Increases. Effective November 1, 2009, California Assembly Bill (A.B.) No. 17 amended sections of the Revenue and Taxation Code and the Unemployment Insurance Code to increase the amount of state income taxes withheld from California workers’ paychecks by 10 percent. This bill also increased the withholding rates for supplemental wages and for stock options and bonus payments. A.B. 17 increases payroll tax withholding – not California personal income tax rates. Employers should ensure payroll personnel and/or vendors have updated withholdings per the new rate increases.

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