Workplace Discrimination

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Workplace bullies are manipulators. They aim to control others on an emotional or physical level, usually through anxiety, in order to meet their own personal agenda. Whether the workplace bully you deal with is your coworker or supervisor, learn more about how to...

A cancer diagnosis is no longer always the end of someone's life -- and certainly not the end of their career. Given the constant breakthroughs in medicine and the way that treatments for cancer are becoming both less difficult to endure and more effective, many...

An Atlanta appeals court decision over the firing of a lesbian security guard has upended the definition of sex-based discrimination used by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In a case that could have far-reaching implications, a security guard who...