Disabled employees are offered a variety of protections to ensure that they are treated fairly in the workplace. Recently, this blog post highlighted a court case that ruled that telecommuting was a reasonable work accommodation within the meaning of the Americans...
Month: August 2014
Telecommuting is a reasonable work accommodation
In this age of computers, the internet, smart phones and other high-tech gadgets, it might not seem that surprising that many California workers telecommute. This means that the employee often works from home but still completes a job for a remote employer.Recently, a...
What behavior creates a hostile working environment?
Since most California employees are at-will employees, they have limited rights in the workplace. This means that they have to put up with a variety of behaviors from their employers. While these behaviors may be annoying, rude or frustrating to deal with, employees...
California employee wins workplace discrimination suit
50 years ago, the U.S. government passed the Civil Rights Act. Under this act, it became illegal to discriminate against people because of their national origin, race, religion, color or gender. Under this law, employers cannot use any of these factors in their...
California woman sues Yahoo, alleges sexual harassment
A lawsuit has recently been filed against a senior director at the California Internet giant Yahoo. In the suit, a former employee of the company alleges both sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Both women involved in the suit started working for Yahoo after...
