Several recent reports suggest that people in the Fresno, California, area and throughout the United States have some areas to brush up on when it comes to how they treat older workers. For instance, one report found that managers are not thinking about having a...
Legal Protection For Workers
Supporting victims of workplace sexual harassment
If you've ever seen a coworker subjected to inappropriate behavior, it can be a helpless feeling. You want to step in but aren't sure what exactly would be the most helpful.Here are a few things you can do to support someone you suspect has been a victim of sexual...
Weinstein effect creates spike in harassment claims
According to statistics that were summarized by a major source of entertainment media, the outing and subsequent legal troubles of the major movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has led to a spike in the number of sexual harassment claims regulatory authorities in California...
We Represent Servicemembers with Employment Problems
There are many people in Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland and the Bay Area who serve in the reserves or the National Guard. They may, at any time, be ordered in to active duty and have to leave their jobs and homes to serve their country.While one would hope that...
Workplace Diversity Includes Age
Most people associate diversity in the workplace with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. While the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission comes from that era, it protects many different workers: race, nation of origin, and religion are well-known, but many...
Review of rights of pregnant employees
There are many women in the Fresno area who work hard to balance both their desire or even need to hold down a full-time job against their desire to have a family.The balancing act is particularly difficult when a woman is actually going through a pregnancy, as it...
Harassment in customer service should not be the standard
There’s no field that is completely immune from harassment in one form or another. Though it seems that the more people you deal with on a daily basis, the more likely you are to be the victim of harassment.It seems no matter how much management declares a...