Even when they don't mean to, employers might discriminate against new mothers and women who are pregnant. This can result in demotions and firings that are supposedly based on sub-par work, but which actually stem from motherhood itself. One woman told her story,...
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Year: 2017
When ‘simple requests’ become disability discrimination
Michael Trimble's employer had a so-called simple request: Please carry your bicycle up the back stairs instead of bringing it through the main lobby of the corporate office building. When he said he couldn't do that, his employer tried a different request: Please...
Comparing sexual harassment in the U.S. to other countries
Sexual harassment is illegal in the United States under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and it results in lawsuits every year when these regulations are broken. Have you ever wondered how the efforts in the U.S. over the last half of a century help it stack...
A retaliatory termination can be illegal
A retaliatory termination is just one type of wrongful termination. It may be illegal, it may violate your rights as a worker in California, and you need to know what legal options you have. So, why does a retaliatory termination happen? There can be many reasons, but...
Age discrimination could become more common
Age discrimination is illegal, but it does happen. In fact, it's hard for laws to actually govern the process. In theory, experts note, refusing to hire someone or paying him or her differently based solely on age is illegal. Workers who do the same jobs and are just...
Implied contracts and illegal firings
Many workers are hired on an at-will basis, meaning they have no contract and can be fired -- or can quit -- without a reason. This can't be done illegally, of course, meaning that workers can't be fired based on ethnicity, gender, or other protected classes. However,...
Do you have free speech on the job?
You get fired, and you think it was because of something you said on the job. As such, you instantly think it's a wrongful termination. After all, doesn't the First Amendment to the Constitution give you the right to free speech, automatically protecting you from...
Could an office romance start a sexual harassment investigation?
Office romances may be considered taboo by some, but they're actually very common. One study found that 40 percent of workers said they'd had some sort of a romantic relationship in the office, and it found that about 33 percent of these relationships ended in...
Federal California lawsuit spotlights multiple harassment claims
It wasn't like officials from two companies now involved as defendants in a sexual harassment lawsuit lacked requisite notice that an employee was feared by many female subordinates that he supervised -- and allegedly physically and verbally abused -- on a long-term...
Will changes to the employment discrimination rule affect you?
California has a long history of supporting workers' rights, but could the rest of the nation be catching up? If you believe that an employer discriminated against you because of your national origin during or after the hiring process, then an evolving governmental...