Employment

Is it illegal to offer extra paid vacation time for an above average worker at the time of their performance review?

I own a construction company in So. Calif. A former employee has recently opened a construction company and is using pictures of our completed projects. He has a statement that reads - 'Portfolio images shown display work completed by (his name) prior to the formation of (his company name).Is this legal?

My girlfriend just had our child. I want to take off as much time as possible to be with them but my company is small and they say they do not have paternity benefits because they are too small. Is this true and if so, how small is too small for paternity benefits.

Thank you, I currently work for a field service company. We were recently acquired in 12/ 2009. We have been on board 16 months and have been told no raises. Many of us have not had a raise since 2005 and many are 55 years old plus. The new thing now is Comp time. They want us to take comp time when we work overtime. It's expected. They tell us, if we don't buy into doing comp time, they will find other ways to fix the OT issues. Most of us take it as they will lay us off. One manager expects us to change to shift work, and work what would be OT as a normal shift. They are getting upset at us since most of the work we do is 7 by 24 contracts, and we have no choice but to take the service call. Also, the comp time must be taken within the pay period, you can't select when you would like to take the comp time, so it's really no benefit to us. When we work 3 hours OT we are allowed only 3 hours comp time off instead of 4.5 hours off.We don't want to loose our jobs, but we don't believe management is playing fair with us.I guess the question is, Is this legal and what rights do we have as employee's if they lay us off over OT or refuse to take Comp time in lieu of OT. I appreciate your time. Nobody wants to loose their job between 59 and 62, and I think we are being taken advantage of through fear.

I have recently been denied services from two chiropractors. I had started treatment, and was scheduled for 24 visits in the future. Then they realized that I put on office the forms that I was HIV positive. They said many horrible comments to me then dismissed me. The doctors never relieved my pain now I understand why. I am ready to give more explicit details regarding this, I want to sue.