# California Employee Rights Lawyer Karl Gerber | Wage & Hour > Expert legal help. Discover how California labor lawyer Karl Gerber fights for wage & hour rights, PAGA actions, meal breaks, and off-the-clock pay violations. Source: https://riversideemploymentlawyer.com/riverside-wagelawyer/ Firm: Employment Lawyers Group — employee-side employment lawyers since 1993. Serving Riverside County, California. Phone: (951) 367-1000 (calling is the fastest way to reach the legal team) Office: 9496 Magnolia Ave, #208, Riverside, CA 92503 Contact form: https://riversideemploymentlawyer.com/contact/ Consultations are free and confidential; cases are taken on contingency. --- Wage lawyers can either pursue lawsuits for unpaid wages on behalf of one person, a group of people, or on a representative basis. Ethical employee attorneys will make the decision about whether a representative action should be filed based upon the amount of the unpaid wages. Class action settlements are appropriate when a small amount of money is owed for a large group of employees. Class actions are problematic if the employer has less than 100 total employees, or less than 100 people have been effected by the illegal wage practice. PAGA is a special California penalty statute that allows single employees to ask for Labor Code penalties on behalf of themselves and large groups. Asking for PAGA penalties does not extinguish the employee's individual claims like a class action does. The Employment Lawyers Group regularly litigates in binding arbitration or court, and actually tries wages cases for . Double Time Pay . Invalid Alternative Work Week Agreements . Unpaid Meal Breaks . Minimum Wage Including On-Call Standby Pay . Overtime . Prevailing Wages for Private Company Construction Workers Doing Construction on Government Job Sites . Rest Breaks **Call (951) 367-1000** if you want to start a case for wages your employer has not paid you ## **ATTORNEY KARL GERBER UNPAID WAGE ARBITRATIONS AND TRIALS** Catching up with employee labor lawyer, Karl Gerber, was difficult. First, he traveled between multiple offices throughout California. Then, I realized he appeared in courts across the state. Finally, once a multi-plaintiff wage and hour arbitration was done he found time for this article. Initially Gerber met four phlebotomists in his Riverside office. There was a fifth but she was a present employee so she dropped out of the case because she feared retaliation. These employees signed an arbitration agreement which prevented them from proceeding as a class action. Gerber knew this when he took the case, but believed the employees had been wrongly denied the opportunity to take meal or rest breaks. They also worked off-the-clock without pay. Utilizing the Private Attorney General Act Gerber filed a second action in court for [PAGA](https://worklawyerca.com/paga-lawyer/) penalties. The California Supreme Court has ruled PAGA actions are not beholden to arbitration. The PAGA trial is set for May and will involve all California facilities of West Pacific Labs. In the PAGA action Gerber was allowed to send questionnaires to the other phlebotomists who worked for West Pacific Labs. A number of phlebotomists from West Pacific Labs responded to the questionnaires indicating they suffered the same labor abuses as Gerber's clients. Below is a picture of how the arbitration room looked on a break. The purpose of the meeting with Gerber, however, was not merely to discuss his recent arbitration. He was supposed to provide the view of a lawyer who represented workers on the number of newly enacted labor laws in California. For some time now, every year the California legislature has enacted new provisions of the California Labor Code. Many of these new statutes apply to employers of all sizes. Many of these newly enacted statutes are difficult to understand, for even a labor lawyer, Gerber said. When asked whether Gerber believed these newly enacted laws promoted new lawsuits he said it depended on the new law. Some, such as PAGA, led to volumes of litigation. Other statutes, such as California Sick Pay rules and rules pertaining to time off to go to children's schools were not hot ticket items in Gerber's opinion. Contact Karl Gerber (951) 367-1000 Ok folks, I got permission from the author to post the above. ## Our Firm: No Upfront Fees or Costs ### Contingency Fee Representation All employment cases for employees are taken on a **contingency basis**. We are only paid a fee **when and if we win** your case, and we **advance all litigation costs**. 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He has represented a wide range of employees throughout California. Mr. Gerber has won **51 of the binding arbitrations and jury trials** he first chaired, and a number of his appeals are published. This deep trial experience is the foundation of the firm's strategic approach to litigation. The employment attorneys employed by the Employment Lawyers Group have worked at the firm well in excess of five years, have also tried many different labor cases, and have all been **extensively trained on employment and wrongful termination law by Karl Gerber**. [Meet Karl Gerber](https://riversideemploymentlawyer.com/karl-gerber/) ## Ready to Discuss Your Case? Your rights as an employee matter. Submit a contact form and we'll get back to you. Submit A Contact Form [Call (951) 367-1000 Now](tel:9513671000)