Employment law and consumer protection, explained by the attorneys who litigate it. Straight answers on your rights at work and in the marketplace.
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 […]
Consumer Rights
If you buy something with a credit card it’s fair to expect that a company that has a stake in the bill will want to be paid according to the terms of the contract you signed. It is also fair to expect that some companies might show a certain level of persistence in trying to […]
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 […]
Consumer Rights
Class actions can be large and complex. Many class action suits involving a defective product or a law-breaking creditor can involve thousands of victims - if not more. In these cases, it would be impossible to find all of the potential plaintiffs before the attorneys bring a claim against the defendant and begin looking into […]
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 […]
Consumer Rights
Anyone who has called a customer service hotline has heard this message before being connected to an agent: “This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes.” Most of the time, we accept that our call might be recorded in this context, because we have been informed and it does not seem like […]
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 […]
Consumer Rights
Digital radio giant SiriusXM has promised to repay customers affected by its fraudulent business practices, change its subscription cancellation policies and pay a $3.8 million fine to settle accusations filed by attorneys general in 44 states. The company had been accused of not cancelling subscriptions after promising customers they would do so. A multistate investigation […]
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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