The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has alleged religious discrimination in an employment discrimination case against McDonald's. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff asked his employers at a Fresno, California McDonald's for permission to wear a...
Legal Protection For Workers
Proposed California bill will protect unpaid interns
California may soon be joining Oregon as the only states to provide protection against workplace discrimination and harassment for unpaid interns. A Democratic legislator announced that she will introduce a bill in January that grants unpaid employees and interns the...
$1.2 million awarded to farm workers in discrimination lawsuit
Due to mistreatment, Del Monte Fresh Produce has agreed to a $1.2 million settlement in a discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of pineapple farm workers from Thailand. The suit, filed by a California office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),...
Was Dolphins locker room a hostile work environment?
National Football League fans from California to Florida have recently been forced to consider whether locker room hazing is a harmless football rite of passage or something more serious. In a story that has received widespread coverage, Miami Dolphins player Richie...
U.S. Senate votes to bar discrimination against LGBT workers
On Nov. 7, the U.S. Senate passed the Employment Nondiscrimination Act. This bill provides a federal level of protection which mirrors laws already in effect for workers in California and 16 other states. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate employment...
California pregnancy discrimination case settled
A 36-year-old woman filed a lawsuit more than four years ago against film giant Lucusfilm Ltd., claiming she was terminated as an assistant to the estate manager at George Lucas's San Anselmo estate because she was pregnant. Attorneys for the company denied her...
California university accused of racial bias
A report that investigated charges of racial bias at UCLA found that almost all of the faculty members of color had suffered some type of discrimination and that the school wasn't doing enough to address the issue. Even when the charges were investigated, the guilty...
California passes law for domestic workers
On Sept. 26, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that will give household workers more rights as employees, making California the third state in the country to pass a bill of rights for domestic workers. The California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights...
Abercrombie wrongly fired woman for wearing hijab
A federal judge has ruled that Abercrombie & Fitch was wrong when they fired a female Muslim employee of one of its Bay-area stores for insisting on wearing a hijab, which is a scarf that covers the head. The company argued that the hijab she wore violated its...
Tax-exempt status of some groups at risk in California
Legislators in California are considering revoking the tax-exempt status from a number of groups, such as the Boy Scouts and different little league sports, if they discriminate when choosing members. The bill, SB 323, stops any of the nonprofit youth groups from...