‘White’ Resumes Expose Hiring Discrimination
Legally, companies cannot refuse to hire workers based on their race or ethnicity. These companies may say that everyone gets a fair shot or even claim to be progressive about race relations. However, despite laws and policies, there is one…
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What is employment arbitration?
The job market here in the San Francisco Bay Area is quite competitive. Many employers in the area have their prospective employees sign a contract before they start working for them because of this. What you may not realize is…
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How Being Young, Female And Fertile Can Affect Your Job
When you think about pregnancy discrimination, you likely think it only impacts your career if you become pregnant and then lose your job. Rather than working with you throughout the process and then giving you proper maternity leave, your employer…
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Bullying And Harassment May Go Hand-In-Hand
On behalf of the Law Office of David C. Winton posted in discrimination and harassment on Friday, April 24, 2020. Some people are bullies. That's true when you're in grade school, college or the workplace. These types of individuals do not just disappear because…
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Employees With Disabilities Have A Right To Accommodations
It is quite simple: employers cannot discriminate against employees based on a disability. And yet, it is still common to hear about such discrimination in the workplace. Even though you have protections under federal and state laws if you have…
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The ABC Test: What Should Workers Know?
In 2019, California lawmakers passed several laws that expanded and protected worker’s rights. One of those was Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), commonly referred to as the “gig-worker law.” AB5 strictly enforces a test that differentiates between independent contractors and employees.…
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Is Office Decor Harassment?
Harassment is a very tricky subject because it is not always that overt. You do have cases of a boss saying something discriminatory about women, minorities or something of this nature, clearly singling out a worker or a group of…
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Different Types Of Workplace Discrimination
Many workers in California and around the country are the targets of overt or covert discrimination while on the job. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has reported that it fielded more than 72,000 discrimination complaints in fiscal 2019. Many of…
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EEOC investigating pregnancy discrimination claim against Google
San Francisco Bay Area readers might be interested to learn that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently began investigating a pregnancy discrimination case filed against Google by a former employee. The plaintiff reportedly lodged a complaint against the California-based…
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AARP Report Explains Economic Damages Of Age Discrimination
Putting in many years on the job in California could result in age discrimination instead of rewards for hard work. An AARP report examined the economic consequences of workplace age discrimination. The report predicted that lower pay for older adults…
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