It is rare today to find overt discrimination from most employers. This is not to suggest that discrimination has disappeared. Some of the most difficult discrimination is the disparate treatment that occurs from unconscious discrimination. An employer may...
Discrimination in the workplace knows no boundaries. It can occur in private companies or public employers. It can occur for entry level positions and for positions that demand years of experience. Two examples from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Most employees hope that their employer, while not omni-benevolent, does not engage in business practices that could intentionally lead to their death. After all, "Working for us could get you killed" would hardly make a compelling recruitment...
Morgan Stanley adopted a dispute resolution program that it required employees to affirmatively opt-out of or become covered by the process. In addition, to this program being imposed on its employees, it contains troubling elements that negatively affect their...
A news story reports that Morgan Stanley required employees to opt out or become covered by a dispute resolution program that ends their ability to go to court and sue with regard to civil rights violations. you may wonder why this change is of any significance....
Age discrimination in employment is always a problem for the employee to prove. Absent an explicit statement by an employer that they won't hire older workers or will always fire employees when they reach age 50, proving age discrimination often requires showing...
When something happens on the job that makes your work impossible, or you are illegally fired or turned down for a promotion, what do you do? You know you have some "rights," but what does that mean? How do you exercise those rights? This is never easy and...
The president has requested that the Department of Labor issue new regulations on overtime, which will cost employers. Shockingly, that is the point. The dirty little secret of employment in the U.S. for the last 40 years is that employers have been given a...
One would hardly characterize the United States as "employee friendly." In spite to decades of worker protection laws being enacted, dating from the child labor laws of the early part of last century to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) in the 1990s, it...
In our last post, we were discussing a woman who had been fired, according to her employer, for mistakes she made on the job. She claimed that reason was a pretext because she had taken Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave on multiple occasions, including...
