Legal Protection For Workers
California residents may be interested in yet another case of employment discrimination involving a mother who was fired from a private Christian middle school for getting pregnant out of wedlock. The 29-year-old teacher was planning to get married to her...
Discriminating against an employee is illegal, whether or not the discrimination was intentional. The alarming trend of employers requesting access to an applicant's Facebook account can result in an employer unwittingly discriminating against a prospective employee...
A lawsuit accusing a Fresno, California, facility of pregnancy discrimination has been settled in favor of the plaintiff. The suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed the facility was guilty of employment discrimination when it offered an...
A second lawsuit has been filed against a logistics company alleging the company broke state wage and hour laws. The lawsuit claims company officials constructed an illegal scheme that required employees to work overtime hours without actually having to pay them the...
Imagine you are a required to take a pregnancy test as a condition of employment, or you are a truck driver and are fired because you requested light duty work because of your doctor's recommendations. Or upon notifying your employer of your pregnancy your supervisor...
A federal judge ordered a medical staffing company to pay $148,000 to a former employee for discriminating against the woman because she was pregnant. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the lawsuit claimed the company's owner discriminated...
A jury awarded one California physician's assistant what is believed to be the largest award ever for damages suffered by a single victim of workplace harassment in the U.S. Over a two-year period of employment with the hospital, the victim recalled at least 18...
Romantic trysts and relationships have long started and even endured at the workplace. In a survey about relationships at work conducted last year, as many as 18 percent of respondents said they dated a supervisor while more than 25 percent said they dated a...
Last time, we wrote about a mother who was allegedly fired from her workplace because she wanted the option to pump breast milk at work. Another example of potential workplace discrimination based on pregnancy or sex has recently reached the headlines. Worker...
A federal judge recently ruled that the firing of a mother who wanted to pump breast milk at work was not considered workplace discrimination. The ruling was made in the context of the new national health care legislation which in part allows mothers the opportunity...
