Employment law and consumer protection, explained by the attorneys who litigate it. Straight answers on your rights at work and in the marketplace.
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 […]
Employment Law
Employment laws provide a necessary structure in the workplace that both helps employers adhere to the law while also affording protections to employees. Although most people are not able to cite all of the laws at work for them, most people are able to recognize when an employer is in violation of the law and […]
Consumer Rights
Buying a car should be an exciting event. Many of us only buy a new car a few times in our lives, and finding the right vehicle is a huge investment. So it is disheartening when the car has a major malfunction shortly after you drive it off the dealership’s lot. In the past, buyers […]
Employment Law
Recognizing that many disabled people were being held back from holding jobs they could excel at, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Among other things, the ADA requires employers to make “reasonable accommodations” to allow disabled employees or job applicants to do their tasks. Lawmakers deliberately left vague what they meant by […]
Employment Law
Our ability to get a job and advance our careers is supposed to be based on our talents, education, prior experience, people skills and similar assets. No job in California should be based on the job holder’s ability to provide sexual favors to a co-worker or superior. Unfortunately, some companies tolerate sexual harassment among its […]
Consumer Rights
Telephone solicitations are so unpopular that it is a wonder that American companies still use this tactic to try to generate businesses. Still, people get these unsolicited calls. Most of the time, they are a minor annoyance, but some businesses choose to be overly aggressive. They use auto dialers to call their targets day and […]
Employment Law
As many people may be aware, there is a scathing sexual harassment case that surrounds Yahoo at the moment. One of their former engineers alleges that she was accosted by her boss who manipulated her into having sex. It is noted that the engineer was threatened with negative consequences and positive benefits depending on whether […]
Employment Law
While the following bit of news isn’t happening here in Los Angeles, California, it does highlight some key points about the workplace and how sexual harassment lawsuits function. A woman who used to work as a medical supply coordinator filed a lawsuit against her supervisor and her employer after her supervisor’s sexual advances and comments […]
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