Marijuana is now legal in small amounts for recreational use. However, your company may have had a strict no-drug policy from the days before Proposition 64. If they fire you, is it a wrongful termination since you weren't breaking the law, or can the company let you...
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Month: January 2017
Nine key facts you need to know about FMLA
You've probably heard of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) many times. You probably also know that it allows employees to take unpaid time off work for specific family and medical reasons. But do you really understand the key details and what it means for you as...
Exceptions to equal pay in the workplace
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 says, among other things, that men and women are to be paid the same amount when doing the same jobs. As women became more involved in the workforce, it was noted that men were often paid more, and this Act was passed in an effort to even...
Lewd conversations can impact you, even if you’re not in them
One of the problems with lewd conversations and sexual jokes is that they can impact people in the workplace, even those who were not part of the conversations initially. They can create a hostile work atmosphere and cause division in the staff, potentially holding...
Former Snapchat employee sues, alleges misrepresentation
Snapchat is on the way to an IPO and becoming a publicly traded company. That's quite a rise for a photo-sharing app, but now a former employee is claiming that it's not been quite as smooth of a rise as the company would have people believe. He claims that Snapchat...