Current and former employees in California may decide to file a lawsuit against their employers for a multitude of reasons. Some of these reasons may include violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Fair Labor...
Month: December 2020
Choose Happiness for the Holidays
We know 2020 has been a rough year and, for some, the holidays present even greater challenges. In these difficult times, it becomes even more important to remind ourselves that happiness is not determined by how others feel about us, or even how we have felt in the...
Are You Working From Home?
If so, you are among many who back in March of this year packed up their office supplies and headed home for what most of us believed was just going to be a few weeks. As we all now know, those few weeks turned into months and is now coming up on close to a year. In...
Popular non-profit faces allegations of harassment, retaliation
Non-profit organizations are usually mission-driven and staffed by employees who share common values and beliefs. For this reason, these workplaces tend to be a good model of what respect and cooperation between coworkers should be. Unfortunately, things aren’t always...
Whistleblowers say they were fired as retaliation for speaking up
In California, people who speak out about possible wrongdoing in the workplace are accorded certain legal protections as whistleblowers. Part of that is being able to report information without fear and concern over their job status. Unfortunately, many employers and...