Workplace Discrimination
How can you protect immigrant employees from discrimination?
Immigration issues continue to make headline news all over the country -- with some areas arguably being hit harder than others. If your workforce includes immigrants of any kind, is there anything you can do to protect those employees from discrimination based on...
Do women suffer more age discrimination then men?
If you're a woman of "a certain age," you're no doubt aware that there's a societal double standard when it comes to age and gender. Men get older and are seen as distinguished-looking and seem wise. Women just get older. It doesn't matter what industry you're in --...
California firefighter files layered discrimination suit
A firefighter is suing Cal Fire because he claims that he was discriminated against both for his sexual orientation and his disability. The 38-year-old man says that the discrimination nearly drove him to suicide. This comes on the heels of an internal investigation...
Racial discrimination and the job application process
What's it like applying for a job when you aren't a white male? It depends. First you have to get to an interview -- but that is far less likely to happen if you happen to have a name that doesn't "sound" white. Assuming you can make it that far, how you have to...
Facebook job ads raise specter of age discrimination
Could Facebook be helping companies participate in illegal hiring practices that involve obvious age discrimination? It certainly seems that way. At least one expert in employment and discrimination law has called the move "blatantly unlawful." At issue is Facebook's...
California takes new step to prevent women from discrimination
There's a very subtle way that women are discriminated against in the job market. It's so subtle, in fact, that most women probably don't give it much thought or even realize that it has the capacity to lock them in a gender-based cycle of unequal pay for equal work....
Getting even: How to define retaliation for your employees
If an employee has filed a complaint against your company due to the discriminatory behavior of other employees, you are now in the peculiar position of having to defend that person from his or her co-workers -- whether you want to or not. Even when an employee is...
How do you avoid workplace discrimination because you’re Muslim?
There's been an uptick in cases of workplace discrimination toward Muslim-Americans -- to the tune of 250 percent since before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Unfortunately, while America treasures the concept of religious freedom, fear has made much of the...
Does a fired Google employee have a discrimination case or not?
A Google employee made national headlines after writing an anti-diversity memo that essentially stated, among other things, that women were biologically unsuited to the tech industry. He was terminated rather quickly for pushing gender stereotypes and violating a...
What is disparate impact discrimination?
Disparate impact discrimination is hard for a lot of people to understand because it is (usually) a type of unintentional discrimination. On the surface, an employment or business practice may seem neutral and equally fair to everyone. In practice, however, the policy...