What prevents a company from not paying you the salary you're owed for the month? What prevents a company from firing you because you're a woman, or because yo

What prevents a company from not paying you the salary you're owed for the month? What prevents a company from firing you because you're a woman, or because you're black? The answer to your question, and these questions is the same: lawyers and lawsuits. In California, firing without cause in order to deprive an employee of a cash out event is legally actionable. How easy it is to prove is a different matter that I am completely unfamiliar with (it could be very easy or very hard).