What Older California Workers Need to Know About Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Because making ends meet is challenging for many older Americans today, it’s becoming more and more common for older workers to continue working past retirement age. Unfortunately, many employees who are age 40 and older suffer from discrimination from their employers, simply because they’re older. Besides draining your finances, being discriminated at your job because […]
Americans Displaced by H-1B Visa Workers
Many American jobs are taken by workers from offshore who have H-1B visas. In 2016, the Disney Corporation laid off dozens of its American IT staff and replaced them with H-1B Visa workers. A judge ruled that Disney did not violate any visa laws in the layoffs. Southern California Edison and the University of California […]
4 Facts About Sexual Harassment Against Men in The Workplace
According (EEOC), Sexual harassment at work is defined as “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance or creates an intimidating, […]
Guidelines for Choosing a Class Action Attorney and Why You May Need One
Often, when listening to the radio or television, you hear announcements about hazardous products that have caused harm to a group of people who’ve used them. These warnings are intended to caution people who may have been victims of defective merchandise or have been scammed by deceitful lending schemes. But thanks to class action attorneys, […]
What California Labor Law Says About Uniforms in the Workplace
For Abercrombie & Fitch, 2003 was not a great year. The international retail giant had some very definite ideas about how their California employees should look—and dress—and some very definite penalties for employees who didn’t toe the line. Female employees were permitted to have no more than two earrings per ear—male employees weren’t allowed to […]