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by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Jun 20, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
California residents who are at or over the age of 40 are protected from age discrimination in employment by federal law. However, according to data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, age discrimination claims have remained high. They peaked in 2008 at...
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Jun 9, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
Most Californians likely understand that it is illegal for employers to discriminate against workers who are members of protected classes or who have engaged in protected activities. When employers discriminate and the workers file discrimination claims, the employers...
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | Jun 6, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
Although many people in California tend to associate sexual harassment claims with female employees, the law applies to both genders. A recent case of a male mechanic who allegedly lost his job for declining the sexual advances of a female shareholder in the trucking...
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | May 30, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination
If a California job seeker over the age of 40 does not get a position that he or she applied for, it could be the result of discrimination. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act makes it illegal to discriminate against a worker over the age of 40 based on his or...
by The Law Offices of Daniel Feder | May 25, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
