Workplace discrimination is alarmingly common in California and across the country. In fact, according to reporting from The Hill, as many as 60% of American workers either have experienced discrimination or have seen it happen to others. Federal and state laws...
Blog
What to do as a victim of age discrimination
Age discrimination has the potential to cost you professionally as well as financially. Yet, there are laws in place that prevent California employers from discriminating against you on account of your age. If you feel as if you missed out on a job, a promotion or...
What is non-physical sexual harassment?
While strides in recent years have helped bring awareness to issues of sexual harassment at workplaces, there is still a lot of work that must happen. One thing to work on is the awareness of different types of sexual harassment. Due to the prominence of the cases...
What is defamation?
It goes without saying that today’s workplace, whether in California or elsewhere, often is less than pleasant. Discrimination comes in an almost infinite variety of types, forms and levels of severity. While women are the most common victims, men are by no means...
A cancer patient’s rights in the workplace
Cancer is a devastating disease and impacts millions of people every year. According to the National Cancer Institute, approximately 1.6 million people received a cancer diagnosis in 2016 with the most common types being breast, lung and prostate cancers. Cancer...
Do you make less money than your co-workers?
In California, employees doing similar work for the same company should be paid similar amounts. This is true in many cases even if, say, Employee A has a master's degree while Employee B has a bachelor's. The same idea applies to something such as one year of...
3 warning signs of gender bias in the workplace
As a woman in the workplace, you experience sexual harassment and discrimination a lot. Unfortunately, most companies are not proactive in recognizing and combating bias. You are often on your own when it comes to recognizing and dealing with discriminatory treatment....
Promotion factors that may work against women
Sometimes, gender discrimination is fairly subtle. For example, take a company that has 50 percent men and 50 percent women in similar entry-level jobs. Yet the company promotes four men for every one woman. This kind of thing might not be easy to notice,...
Is it a good idea to explain about harassment at previous jobs?
You were sexually harassed at a previous job and quit the position because of it. Now you are making the interview rounds again and facing questions such as, "Why did you leave your previous employer?" Could it be a good idea to explain about the harassment...
Recognizing workplace retaliation
When you show up to work each day, you have certain protected rights, and you may exercise these rights without having to fear that your employer or colleagues will treat you unjustly because you choose to do so. Protected rights take on many forms, but if your...