California employees might be the victims of two different but related types of sexual harassment in the workplace at the same time. Hostile workplace harassment may involve creating a difficult work environment for a person through comments or behavior while quid pro...
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Sexual harassment in the workplace
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | May 22, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
In California, employers are responsible for creating safe workplace environments. This includes sexual harassment, which includes any unwelcome advances or conduct that is sexual in nature. When sexual harassment incidents occur at work, some employees may find that...
Female doctors claim discrimination at work
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | May 15, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
A study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that four out of five female physicians had experienced discrimination at work. Researchers asked members of an online community called the Physicians Moms Group about their mental...
The implication of "after-acquired" evidence
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | May 9, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
California workers who are thinking about filing a discrimination lawsuit against an employer may want to know more about the "after-acquired evidence" defense. As the name implies, after-acquired evidence is information that an employer discovers about an employee...
Sexual harassment in the workplace takes many forms
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | May 8, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
Workers in California and around the country are protected from sexual harassment in the workplace by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the courts have recognized various types of this kind of harassment. Quid-pro-quo- sexual harassment takes place when...
Attitudes toward sexual harassment over the decades
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Apr 25, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
Although 98 percent of businesses have policies in place against sexual harassment and more than two-thirds of companies provide training aimed at recognizing and discouraging this behavior, there is evidence that the problem has not significantly improved over the...
Discrimination based on sexual orientation ruled illegal
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Apr 10, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
While California employees already enjoy protection from workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, this is not the case in every state. However, on April 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit became the first full federal appeals court to...
Employers may be discriminating against older applicants
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Mar 31, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
A study led by an economist at the University of California, Irvine, has found employers may be discriminating against older individuals who are applying for jobs. The researchers sent out 40,000 resumes applying for actual jobs. The resumes that were sent out were...
Class-action lawsuit filed against jewelry company
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Mar 17, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
California employees may be interested in learning that the discrimination claims that were filed against Sterling Jewelry Co. have developed into a class-action lawsuit. The claims are all centered around the management and the work culture they developed that was...
Women accuse jewelry company of sexual harassment
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Mar 2, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
Diamonds might be called a girl's best friend, but 1,300 pages of sworn testimony from a class-action arbitration case against Sterling Jewelers Inc. allege that female employees experienced widespread sexual harassment. The company operates jewelry stores in malls...
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