Are you searching for a San Diego law firm with extensive experience defending employers and business owners in wage and hour disputes?  The experienced employer defense attorneys at the Watkins Firm have decades of expertise defending employers and their management team from litigation and lawsuits brought against the company by employees.

Winning a Wage and Hour Dispute

We have a strong track record of success in defending employers and business owners throughout California and winning a wage and hour dispute, even when the manager or owner involved believes they may have acted inappropriately.  It is important to understand the actual legal elements in these cases, and the burden of proof that the disgruntled employee carries.  The importance of prompt action and underlying documentation in these cases cannot be overstated.

It is also critical to carefully research and document the experience of other potential witnesses to the events in question and to preserve appropriate documentation and communications. If you have are a business owner or corporate manager and have been accused of sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour violations, unpaid overtime or other employment issues it is important to seek the counsel of attorneys who have successfully defended hundreds of others in these types of cases, while achieving a successful outcome and preventing heavy financial burdens to the accused manager or the business itself.

Pro-Tip: “There are so many actions targeting employers.  Private attorneys General Act is another one of those things. It’s a law that allows attorneys, terrible plaintiff’s lawyers from the Dark side to file class actions more easily against employers. So if you’re a San Diego or California employer and you have a problem with one employee and their paycheck and they go to the wrong lawyer and he says, let’s file an action, not just on behalf of one employee but against all employees because this is a representation of how terrible this company treats all of its employees because they made a mistake on a paycheck.

They want that person to, in effect, step into the shoes of the attorney general and come after you in all sorts of painful (read: expensive) ways. There’s immense power to go after previous employees records, current employees. That opens the door to a lot of exposure. Fortunately, judges hate it.

So the good news is judges are sick of these. If you tell us as a California employer that you have a problem with this employee, we can look at it quickly and guide you in what to say and then diagnose any other problems you may have, and before anyone can turn it into a class action, you spend very little money, you’ve fixed a problem, and there’s nowhere for plaintiffs attorneys to go. You’ve shut a door.  We can definitely help to mitigate, if not remediate any exposure our clients have if they simply pick up the phone and call us to help.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Decades of Experience Defending Employers and Business Owners in Wage and Hour Disputes

If you have been contacted by plaintiff’s attorneys or a state or federal agency you need an attorney with extensive experience defending employers and business owners in employment disputes in San Diego and throughout California.  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 39 – What Keeps Employers Up At Night as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.

We will discuss all that has happened, and work with you to develop and implement a strategy that will protect you and your interests and achieve the best possible outcome in your case.