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Bay Area Employment Law Blog
New CA law helps victims of workplace sexual harassment
Victims of sexual harassment in the workplace often don’t report incidents right away. Some may fear losing their job, while others may not feel comfortable coming forward. And many who do come forward find their company taking steps to keep the complaint secret with...
Choosing a Bay Area Employment Lawyer
If you believe you need an employment attorney, the following may help you in choosing one to represent you: What Is "Employment Law?" Employment law involves issues arising in the workplace, such as wrongful termination, harassment and unpaid overtime (see [LINK] for...
California moves to ban hair discrimination
Hair is sometimes referred to as someone's "crowning glory," so it's only appropriate that a bill aimed at ending discrimination in California against historically black hairstyles is called the CROWN Act. Otherwise known as Senate Bill 188, the "Create a Respectful...
Age discrimination in hiring (and how to spot it)
Are you 40-years-old or older and looking for a job? Whether you're seeking a promotion from within your current company or looking for a position with another firm altogether, you might expect that your years of experience and hard-earned knowledge more than make up...
How much should sexual harassment cost a company?
What's a fair price, in your mind, for a company to pay when an employee has endured sexual harassment that's put his or her career in jeopardy and caused serious emotional harm? Right now, federal law says the maximum any sexual harassment case is worth -- no matter...
California school sued over retaliation, wrongful termination
The Olive Grove Charter School that operates in numerous locations around Santa Barbara is facing allegations that it wrongfully terminated an upper-level employee who complained about certain improprieties going on. The allegations come from a former employee who had...
Could sexual harassment among surgeons put patients at risk?
Between April and July of 2017, researchers sent an anonymous survey to members of the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) asking questions about sexual harassment within their profession in the prior 12-month period. On one...
Migraines and workplace discrimination
"I have a migraine," you tell your boss. Your boss rolls her eyes and says, "I get terrible headaches, too. Take some Advil." Except a migraine isn't a headache -- although it (usually) makes your head hurt. A migraine is actually a complex neurological condition that...
Police departments face LGBT discrimination lawsuits nationwide
More police departments than ever -- including those in California -- are facing a reckoning with their past when it comes to discrimination against their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) brothers and sisters in blue. In the past, many gay officers were...
Handling a wrongful demotion at work
For many people, a demotion at work is worse than being fired -- especially if you know it's unfair -- or outright illegal. The frustration of knowing that you're being treated unjustly can combine with the embarrassment of having to go back into work every day with...
