Workplace Discrimination

Over the past several years, legislatures in California and across the country have expanded rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals. These rights have been instrumental in allowing members of the GLBT community to be on an equal footing with...

California employers have rules that prevent them from discriminating against employees. While many people may understand this, many employees don't speak up when it happens to them. However, one California employee has spoken up by filing a workplace discrimination...

Employers are constantly judging their employees to make sure an employee is working up to the standards of the company. Often an employer is judging every aspect of its employees to see if they are good enough. While performance reviews may be common, there are some...

Over the last several years, the economy has hit workers in California hard. Thousands of people were laid off as the Great Recession plagued the country. Many workers have spent months and even years trying to find any place that would hire them. Many of the workers...

In an ideal world, discrimination in the workplace would not be an issue. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world and many people face workplace discrimination on a daily basis. In order to reduce the amount of workplace discrimination, federal and state employment...

There are few events as exciting as welcoming a new baby, but there are also few events where employees need as much time off work either. Both during a pregnancy and once the baby is born, expecting California mothers often need to take time off work to deal with...

Everyone wants to be accepted for who they are. People do not want to live in fear that their friends, families or employers are going to discriminate against them because of how they were born or what they believe in. However, many gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

Many California employees know that despite protections, workplace discrimination still occurs. Some employers either promote or allow a hostile work environment where some employees face discrimination because of their race, gender, sexual orientation or religion....

A Los Angeles employee has won $1.2 million court case after claiming racial discrimination. According to the man -- a Los Angeles police officer -- employee laws were broken starting in 2009. The man claimed that members of his police unit discriminated against him...

Television and media giant Oprah Winfrey's television network, OWN, is being sued by a former employee in a Los Angeles court. In the suit, the former employee claims that the network violated employment laws by discriminating against her.In 2010, the woman was hired...