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Posted by Legal Team On November 23, 2018

Female-owned company accused of pregnancy discrimination

The Wonderful Company, which produces Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice and Wonderful pistachios, is co-owned by a self-made woman. However, the billionaire entrepreneur, once a struggling mother of two herself, is accused of being notoriously unfriendly to her pregnant employees. While the co-founder publicly espouses family-friendly policies and…

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Posted by Legal Team On November 16, 2018

Vivint Smart Home named in harassment suit

Some stories of workplace discrimination are hard to fathom. Four litigants — all men of color — have filed lawsuits in California alleging that they suffered a string of offensive events while working at a company owned by Vivint Solar, which is controlled by the same parent…

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Posted by Legal Team On November 9, 2018

Report: Racial discrimination creates a feedback loop

The impact of racial discrimination in the workplace is vast and continuous, despite legal protections. Even workers who do get hired find that it can be far harder to keep those jobs. Some have even gone so far as to say that African-American workers must be “twice…

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Posted by Legal Team On November 2, 2018

Employee perks for tech companies face challenges

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…

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Posted by Legal Team On October 29, 2018

Behavior Outside The Workplace May Play A Role In Discrimination Cases

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…

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Posted by Legal Team On October 25, 2018

How do you respond to sexual harassment at work?

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…

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Posted by Legal Team On October 19, 2018

San Francisco settles toxicologist’s wrongful termination suit

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,…

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Posted by Legal Team On October 10, 2018

Recognize these signs that you’re about to be fired

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…

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Posted by Legal Team On October 5, 2018

To stop racist comments, confront the racism head-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…

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Posted by Legal Team On September 26, 2018

Bystanders have the power to halt sexual harassment

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…

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