The Workers' Ten Commandments
The Worker's Ten Commandments
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Your immigration status does not matter. Even if you are UNDOCUMENTED, if you have worked, you have the right to be paid.
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You MUST be paid at least the minimum wage per all your regular hours worked. In San Francisco the current minimum wage is $16.99 per hour.
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Your Employer MAY NOT ask you about arrests or convictions on job applications and MAY NOT conduct background checks or ask about criminal records until AFTER making you a conditional offer of employment.
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You MUST be paid overtime if you worked more than 8 hours per day or more than 40 hours per week.
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Your Employer MUST provide you with a 30-minute UNPAID meal break for every 5 hours of work.
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Your Employer MUST provide you with a 10-minute PAID rest break if you work a shift of between 3.5 and 6 hours and MUST provide you with 2 rest breaks if you work a shift of between 6 and 10 hours.
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Tips are your property, but your Employer MAY establish tip pooling if “reasonable” and shared by employees providing service.
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Vacation pay is NOT required by law, but if provided, the Employer must pay it if you have not used it at termination or resignation.
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You HAVE the right to use Paid Sick Leave hours, after 90 days of hire date. It is not necessary you miss a full shift. You can request to use a few hour of PSL at a time, and these hours can be used for a personal and/or a family member’s illness, or to care for another person.
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Your Employer MUST pay you ALL your wages due, plus your remaining accrued vacation time, immediately upon discharge or resignation.
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Finally, you have many other rights and your Employer CANNOT FIRE AND/OR PUNISH you for trying to exercise your rights, for example, asking for a sick day or for organizing your coworkers to demand your workers’ rights.
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IF YOUR EMPLOYER DOES, CONTACT US.