Month: August 2018
Supreme Court asked to hear gender discrimination case
Are sex and gender the same? Is gender immutable and fixed or subjective? These are some of the theoretical questions that have to be answered and defined into law because they have real-world implications for the nation's transgender community -- which has become...
Imminent danger and your right to refuse to work
For the most part, employers have a pretty broad prerogative to tell employees what work has to be completed at any given time -- and many jobs have an element of danger that has to be managed on a daily basis. It's impossible, for example, to work on a construction...
Culture of sexual harassment alleged in government agency
Did the former personnel chief of a federal agency treat his office as like a private hunting ground for women? Did he create a culture that treated women as mere objects -- many hired on solely because they were viewed as attractive possible partners for the...