Legal Question in Business Law in California

employer do not give enough vacation time, threat to lay-off, cut working time

My mom is working for a candy company. The company aggrees to let her accumulate holidays up to three years. She has accumulated up to three years and prepared to take a long vacation to see her dad in China for three weeks. When my mom asks for vacation days and sick days off to cover those three weeks long vacation, the owner only gave her one week paid vacation days, and would not check for my mom if she has use any vacation days in the pervious years. My mom requests her boss to check a few times, and the boss threaten my mom by saying she needs to cut her hours. My mom is working 4 days out of 5, then 3 days out of 5 days a week instead of 5 days a week before. The owner has tendency to lay-off people eventually once she is mad at someone. If the boss does lay off my mom, I want to ask if my mom can sue her. What kind of recovery can my mom get? My mom does not speak English. She speaks Chinese. She's afraid of being charge by laywers and not winning the case and there is a language barrier.

Please give me suggesstions and advice. Thanks,

Linda

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