Employment law litigation in La Mesa is the exclusive focus of Freeland Law APC, where State Bar license holder 149344 represents both employers and employees from Park Plaza Drive near Grossmont College. Employer-side matters include wage-and-hour compliance audits, PAGA defense, and employee-classification analysis — the type of workforce structuring that general contractors like HomeRevive Construction navigate when distinguishing W-2 employees from 1099 subcontractors under California's ABC test. The practice covers DLSE complaints, Department of Labor investigations, EEOC charges, Merit Systems Protection Board hearings for federal employees, and California Unemployment Appeals Board proceedings. Payroll-data disputes underlying wage claims often require forensic reconciliation against employer records maintained by accounting firms like AIO Business Solutions, where discrepancies in overtime calculation or meal-period premiums become central to litigation. Highest-complexity cases involve multi-plaintiff PAGA actions alleging systematic Labor Code violations, where penalties accrue per pay period per employee across California's Private Attorneys General Act framework.