Workplace rights for Century City employees
Century City is a 176-acre business district on the Westside of Los Angeles, built on the former backlot of 20th Century Fox and opened in 1963, according to Wikipedia. The Century City Business Improvement District counts around 2,500 businesses, about 6,000 residents and about 50,000 employees working in the district. That ratio is the point: most people with a workplace problem in Century City commute in from across Los Angeles County, and the claim is governed by California law wherever they live.
Century City’s main industries and the claims they lead to
Law firms and professional services. Century City is one of Los Angeles’s two main legal centers, and the business improvement district names law and finance among the district’s anchor industries. PwC signed a lease for roughly 150,000 square feet at 2121 Avenue of the Stars in 2026, reported by Commercial Observer. Legal and professional staff here commonly bring claims over paralegals, secretaries and assistants classified as exempt when their duties are not, unpaid overtime absorbed into a salary, pregnancy and parental-leave retaliation, and harassment by a partner or senior associate that HR is slow to act on.
Entertainment, talent and media. Constellation Place houses ICM Partners, and Creative Artists Agency is relocating its headquarters to Century City Center at 1950 Avenue of the Stars. The Fox Studio Lot sits on the district’s southwest edge. Agency and production staff raise unpaid overtime on assistant desks, misclassification of coordinators and assistants, sexual harassment by executives or clients, and NDAs pushed on employees immediately after a complaint.
Finance and investment. Houlihan Lokey and International Lease Finance Corporation are both headquartered in the district. Claims from finance employees often involve a bonus or deferred compensation withheld at termination, age discrimination dressed up as a restructuring, and whistleblower retaliation after raising a compliance or reporting problem.
Retail, hospitality and health care. Westfield Century City completed an $800 million renovation and expansion, and the mall, the district’s hotels and the Century City Medical Plaza are among its largest non-office employers. Hourly staff here bring the familiar wage claims: off-the-clock work before and after shifts, missed meal and rest periods, tip disputes, disability accommodation, and harassment by a manager or a customer.
Working for a public employer near Century City
Century City is almost entirely private-sector, which makes it unusual among Los Angeles submarkets. The public employers nearest to the district are Los Angeles Unified School District schools serving the area and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office, which covers Century City.
Some claims against state and local public employers require a government claim before a lawsuit, with deadlines as short as six months. Harassment and discrimination claims usually go through the CRD process instead. Because the rules depend on the claim, contact us early if you work for a public agency.
Where Century City employment claims are filed
Discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims usually begin with a complaint to the California Civil Rights Department (CRD). Wage claims can go to the Labor Commissioner’s Los Angeles district office at 320 W. Fourth Street, Suite 450, Los Angeles, CA 90013. Lawsuits are filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, and the court’s filing rules decide which courthouse hears an unlimited civil case. We’ll tell you which route is likely to recover the most for you, and handle the filing.
