California employers and employees should carefully review proposed guidance about national origin discrimination released in early June by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It outlines the agency's policies as well as how its rules apply to various...
Workplace Discrimination
Lowe’s settles in disability discrimination action
An inflexible employer could create serious difficulties for a California employee with a disability. However, a major case involving Lowe's may provide encouragement to others dealing with conflicts over leave needed to deal with their conditions or to care for...
FMLA policy omission leaves employer open to lawsuit
Californians who believe their employers treated them unfairly after they requested Family and Medical Leave Act days may be interested in a case involving the Illinois Department of Corrections. According to a report published in February 2016, the IDC fired an...
Sexual harassment still rampant in tech industry
According to a new study, women working in California's tech industry still experience high levels of discrimination and harassment. The study was spearheaded by a woman who testified at the gender discrimination trial of venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins in...
Study finds age discrimination is worse for women
Many women in California plan to continue working after the age of 60, but finding a new job during those years can be difficult. According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, there is a lot of evidence that older women experience more age...
Racial discrimination an ongoing problem in California
Despite advances made since the 1960s, people of color continue to be confronted with situations of discrimination at their jobs. Rather than the overt discrimination that occurred frequently many years ago, today's discrimination faced by workers in California and...
Age discrimination in California workplaces
The Age Discrimination Employment Act of 1967 is supposed to protect older employees from discrimination from their employer, but the reality is that this type of discrimination is a growing issue. According to a survey done by the AARP in 2013, two-thirds of those...
Federal legislation could protect LGBT employees
The LGBT community scored a major victory when the United States Supreme Court ruled that state laws denying the right for same sex couples to marry were unconstitutional. For those who were shocked by the ruling, there were signs of that possibility in prior rulings;...
Your sexual orientation should not affect the workplace
California employees head to their workplaces every day for the purpose of completing their jobs and getting paid. Factors that don't relate to their job performances should not affect the employees' work environment. Similarly to discrimination against an employee's...
What is the role of the EEOC in discrimination cases?
California employees need to understand basic employment laws so that they are not taken advantage of by their employers. In particular, they should understand that employers cannot discriminate against employees because of the employee's race, religion, gender, age,...