San Francisco wants to end a much-touted perk that tech company employees have long been accustomed to enjoying: a free lunch. Many tech companies started their own in-house cafeterias to feed their employees. When many of the tech companies were located in far-flung suburbia, that was a…
Some days it seems like people know just enough to avoid serious consequences. Discrimination and harassment may be subtle enough inside the workplace to make it difficult to prove. It’s real, and it’s creating a hostile work environment, but collecting enough evidence of it at the worksite…
Given the number of news stories that keep surfacing about sexual harassment in different industries throughout the country, sexual harassment is still a big problem in the nation’s workforce. Are you prepared to handle it, if it happens to you? Being the victim of sexual harassment doesn’t…
San Francisco has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the man who had once been its chief toxicologist for $100,000. The toxicologist filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination after he claimed that he resigned rather than participate in an unlawful act as his employer instructed. In effect,…
You have the right to report unsafe or illegal activity in the workplace, including things like safety violations or discrimination — but not all employers behave benevolently when they’re alerted to a problem. In fact, reporting a problem does have the potential of putting a target on…
Allowing a racist remark to go unchallenged conveys the subtle message that whatever is being said is somehow acceptable. That’s not good. Racism won’t stop until enough people take a stand and offer a negative response to every racist remark they hear. Responding to someone’s racist comment…
What can you do to stop sexual harassment if you’re neither the harasser nor the victim? Plenty. Sexual harassment is something that frequently arises out of a company’s culture. It won’t stop until there’s a cultural shift that makes abusers realize that such actions simply are not…
There’s a lot of conversations going on about the concept of privilege in America. Unfortunately, there isn’t always a clear understanding of what privilege means. People who are told that they are privileged because they are white, heterosexual, cisgendered, male or anything similar often react with frustration…
Is it illegal for an employer to fire you while you’re sidelined from the job due to an illness or injury? Unfortunately, no. At least, not exactly. Your disability doesn’t protect you against all causes for termination. Generally speaking, your employer can let you go for any…
Wrongful termination is still a problem at places of employment throughout California and the rest of the country. Even though there are laws banning different reasons why employers can fire their employees, companies still thin their payroll by using these reasons. Let’s take a look at the…
