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Employment Law
It is impossible to know for sure how many people in California are dealing with sexual harassment at work at any given time. In 2014, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing received 4,312 harassment claims, but this is likely no more than a small percentage of the actual sexual harassment going on. Many […]
Employment Law
The Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman, P.C., recently released a SlideShare presentation to help workers recognize and respond to illegal discrimination in the workplace. Take a look at the slides below to find out more about what your rights are if you think your employer has broken the law. In this presentation, we discuss […]
Employment Law
A high-profile employment discrimination lawsuit has Silicon Valley businesses doing a lot of soul-searching, it appears. Whether this will lead to real changes in how female employees are treated in the tech field remains to be seen. Readers have probably heard of the suit, which has received a great deal of media coverage. The plaintiff, […]
Employment Law
Often, instead of recognizing that they have a problem manager or worker and taking steps to handle the issue, employers will punish an employee who reports sexual harassment. They may try to intimidate the victim through demotion, unwanted job transfer, denial of a deserved raise or other benefit, and so on. These tactics can go […]
Employment Law
Employment discrimination can take many forms, and not all of them are obvious. To help you determine whether your rights have been violated at work, our firm recently published a white paper entitled “Is That Legal? A Worker’s Guide to Spotting Employment Discrimination.” This paper provides you with an introduction to some key laws and […]
Employment Law
A major employment discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court addresses how employers must respect their employees’ religious practices, when they are not certain what religion those workers believe in. On Feb. 25, justices heard oral arguments in a case that pits upscale teenage clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch against a young Muslim woman who […]
Employment Law
There are managers and workers in California who mistreat people at their workplace, but technically are not committing sexual harassment or discrimination. Even when abusive words or actions do not fit into these well-known legal categories, they can be extremely painful and create a toxic work environment for victims. To try to fill in this […]
Employment Law
Virtually every employer in California says it does not tolerate sexual harassment or discrimination of its workforce by co-workers or superiors. These businesses claim to take reports of harassment and discrimination from their employees very seriously. Unfortunately, in many cases these are just empty words. Rather than investigate claims, many employers try to suppress complaints […]
Employment Law
Now that clothing company American Apparel has fired Dov Charney, its founder and CEO, after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, the company is changing its policy regarding treatment of employees. The company announced earlier this month that it has developed a new anti-sexual harassment policy. The new policy makes it clear that American Apparel will […]
Employment Law
With women now long established in the workplace in California, pregnant women are a common sight at many jobs. Female workers are entitled to maternity leave under the California Family Rights Act and the California Pregnancy Disability Leave Law, but some employers deny them those rights, or pressure their female workers not to have children. […]
Employment Law
Usually included among the accusations in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a person victimized at work is one saying the alleged harasser created a hostile work environment. What is a “hostile work environment,” exactly? As readers who have never experienced sexual harassment can probably guess, there is a difference between being in a hostile […]
Employment Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an employment discrimination lawsuit involving clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch’s decision not to hire a teenage girl as a sales associate because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons. The woman says she was the victim of hiring discrimination, but Abercrombie says the headscarf would have conflicted […]
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