Blog Category - Workplace Discrimination Page 3

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How Much Legal Protection Do California Employees Have?

In California, workers have some of the most protective employment laws in the country. Many California state laws expand on existing federal protective laws, to provide even more protection for workers. What Laws Protect California Employees? Employee misclass...

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What is Genetic Discrimination?

Genetic discrimination occurs when an employer uses the results of a genetic test to deny employment or health coverage to those whose results identify increased risk of a certain disorder or disease. Under California law, genetic information is defined as the individual’s gen...

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Which Laws Protect California Employees in the Workplace?

Federal laws protect employees countrywide in almost all private enterprises. On the state level, California has more employee protection laws than almost any other state. These laws allow employees to have rights when treated unfairly in the workplace. They also allow for emp...

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Can I Return to Work After Quitting If I Change My Mind?

Many situations can arise that would cause a worker to want to temporarily leave their job. They may have become injured, have a new child in the family, or want to leave to care for loved ones. While laws exist protecting worker rights to have leave time for these reasons, wo...

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Is Application Testing Discrimination Illegal?

Many applications for jobs now include some sort of standardized test that uses several questions and parameters to narrow down the pool of job seekers. Certain inflammatory questions found on hiring tests can be starting points for testing discrimination cases. A Califor...

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Is Appearance Discrimination Legal?

There is no denying that appearance does make a difference in the workplace. A recent study conducted by Italian researchers found that resumes that included a headshot of an attractive person were much more successful in getting responses than ones that did not. Certain emplo...

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Can You Be Terminated for Speaking Out Against an Employer?

In the chicken industry, farmers that are categorized as independent contractors have to provide their own equipment, and are subject to practices most people would consider unfair by massive food corporations. For example, in 2008, a man rallied local farmers to file complain...

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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...

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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...

Dec

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...

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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...

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Are Employers Required to Provide Items Essential for Jobs?

Disney recently got itself into trouble by refusing to provide Disney World employees with costumes. Employees claimed fees from buying and maintaining the costumes pushed their pay below the federal minimum wage. The Department of Labor investigated and confirmed these allegatio...

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