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Gender Discrimination Video

Another area of discrimination is gender discrimination. This is discrimination against someone based on what their gender is, are they male, are they female. It is absolutely illegal to make employment decisions about someone based upon their gender. Gender discriminatio...

Jul

What If I Was Asked to Leave My Job Because of My Disability?

A former employee working on the board for BET, Black Entertainment Television, is pressing charges saying she was pressured to leave her job for having a disability. She was on medical leave after being diagnosed with breast cancer. She planned on coming back, only to receive...

Jul

How Can We Get More Women in High Company Positions?

Pressure in the business community to get more women into head company positions is mounting. According to a 2015 study by the S&P 500, women only held 20 percent of corporate board positions in the country. Stanford research professors have found that women often get repl...

Jul

How to File a Workplace Discrimination Case In California

Recently, famous national parks around the country have come under scrutiny amongst reports of sexism and work harassment committed against female park employees. The park service has a reputation for being a male dominated culture, and there are many more men than women in th...

Jul

Bullied at Work? You May Have Legal Options

When you’re a kid, bullying can be devastating to your self-esteem and cause serious psychological issues. Bullying doesn’t stop with childhood for many. Adult workplace bullying affects employees in all areas of the workforce, and often can be worse than childhood bullying be...

Jul

Can I Lose My Job for Reporting Sexual Harassment?

The New York Times recently published an article that discusses why women at Fox News may have been afraid to report their bosses for sexual harassment. Fox News, and specifically long-time anchor Bill O’Reilly, are in the middle of a major sexual harassment scandal. Bill O’Re...

Jul

Does My Condition Qualify as A Disability?

Millions of Americans in the workforce suffer from health conditions that may qualify as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, these workers are also discriminated against on a regular basis. Workers with disabilities may be mistreated by coworker...

Jul

What is an Employment Class Action Lawsuit?

A class action is the type of lawsuit where someone brings a claim, not just on their own behalf, but on the behalf of many people that are similarly situated to themselves. For instance, if you know that everyone that you worked with didn’t really get paid overtime, despite the ...

Jul

How Do I Know if I Am Entitled to Overtime?

In order to determine if someone is entitled to overtime or not, you have to examine what their job function is. If their job function is truly managing, such as reviewing performance reviews, handling everyone’s scheduling, giving out discipline, hiring employees, making decisio...

Jul

Do I Have An Equal Pay Act Claim in California?

We’ve examined a number of different factors that play into why women are sometimes paid less than men. And there is some theoretical information that suggests that women negotiate not as well for themselves as perhaps their male counterparts, but the bottom line is, that if any ...

Jul

Don’t Let Employers Get Away with Language Discrimination, Your Native Language is Protected

In a recent California case involving clothing retailer Forever 21, it was determined that state civil rights laws were violated when a new ‘English only’ policy was enforced. Employees were not allowed to speak Spanish to each other or the customers, even on work breaks. Cali...

Jul

How Do I Win My Employment Law Case in Los Angeles?

In labor and employment law, most of our claims are witness driven, fact driven, document driven. So the process is really about cross-examining, deposing, percipient witnesses, getting documents that might support them, support their statements or impeach their statement. And ba...

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