Category Archives: Discrimination Harassment
California Civil Rights Department Dismisses Caste Discrimination Lawsuit Against Tech Company
Employment laws in California and at the federal level prohibit discrimination based on protected characteristics which relate to a person’s physical appearance, personal history, or family background. For example, skin color, national origin, and religion are protected characteristics. Should the law officially recognize caste as a protected characteristic, separate from the aforementioned characteristics which… Read More »
Can California’s Salary Transparency Laws Prevent Employment Discrimination?
Employment discrimination cases often focus on an employee’s allegations that the employer terminated the employee’s job, harassed the employee, or unfairly denied him or her promotions or raises because of a protected characteristic of the employee, such as the employee’s race, gender, religion, family status, or country of origin. Investigations into an employee’s discrimination… Read More »
Sheriff’s Lieutenant Alleges That Demotion Was A Case of Racial Discrimination
Employment discrimination can mean that an employer avoids hiring candidates of a certain race, even if the job listings state that the employer, pursuant to employment laws, does not discriminate on the basis of race or any other characteristic, such as age, sex, religion, or family status. Discrimination can also take other forms, too. … Read More »
Assistant To Filmmaker Sues Film Production Company, Alleging Racial Discrimination
Whether or not you like the style of action-packed dramas about the criminal underworld that Randall Emmett and his film production companies produce is a matter of personal taste, but everyone can agree that he has been successful at getting a large number of films out of development and onto the silver screen. He… Read More »
The Cal State Ban On Caste Discrimination And The Ensuing Controversy
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent pieces of federal and state legislation have attempted to ban employment discrimination based on an employee’s physical characteristics, family background, beliefs, and aspects of the employee’s personal life unrelated to work. The language in statutes and case law has expanded the list of protected characteristics over… Read More »
Is Remote Work A Reasonable Accommodation For Employees With Disabilities?
Federal and state employment laws, including the employment-related provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability, among other protected characteristics. The law requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities when the employee requests such accommodations. It is up to the employer and… Read More »
Employer Retaliation Against Employees Who Request Disability Accommodations
Requesting reasonable accommodations for a disability is a legally protected action; this means that it is against the law for employers to retaliate against employees who request accommodations, such as by harassing the employee at work or terminating the employee’s employment. It is not against the law, however, for the employer not to make… Read More »
Temp Workers And Employment Discrimination
Working for a temporary staffing agency is certainly better than being out of a job, but it is not a cushy job by any stretch of the imagination. Going all the way through the application and interview process only yields you a few paychecks before the temporary assignment ends, and then you are back… Read More »
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Orders Drug Enforcement Administration To Pay Settlement To 71 Women Who Were Unfairly Denied Promotions
Employees who file discrimination complaints may cite any of a variety of adverse actions that their employers took against them on the basis of a protected characteristic, such as race, sex, religion, country of origin, or age. One example of an adverse action is denial of promotions and raises. If you notice a connection… Read More »
Jewelry Retail Company Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination
The saying goes that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but for many women who worked at Kay Jewelers or Jared, the work environment in which they sold diamonds was anything but friendly. If you have followed the news about employment discrimination lawsuits, you can tell that many industries that have a reputation for… Read More »