The U.S. Supreme Court is tackling whether workers who must wear specific safety or protective gear in the course of their employment must be paid for the time spent gearing up before shift and gearing down after. In essences, the Supreme Court will be determining...
Month: February 2013
Former Employees Sue Over Culture Of Sexual Harassment At CA Company
Two former employees of Capital Asset Exchange and Trading (CAET) have alleged in separate employment discrimination and harassment lawsuits against the California employer that it cultivated a culture of sexual harassment through vulgar actions and speech. Both were...
Fired Days After Revealing Pregnancy, Bus Driver Fights Back
A Santa Monica bus driver fired about a week after telling her boss that she was pregnant successfully persuaded a jury that she was discriminated against by her employer, the City of Santa Monica. But the City appealed and the California Supreme Court reversed that...
Wrongful Termination Suit Follows Firing At Christian College
Twenty-nine-year-old Teri James is fighting back against the Christian college she believes wrongfully terminated her after she informed the human resources manager that she was pregnant. El Cajon-based San Diego Christian College gave the unmarried James the...
A Patient Request Is Not An Excuse For Race Discrimination
Forty-nine-year-old Tonya Battle has worked for the same hospital for 25 years. Currently she's a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). She may have thought she'd seen it all, until one father's request floored her: he asked the hospital to ensure that no...
Is Your Credit Report Hurting Your Job Prospects?
It doesn't seem fair. You are out of work, looking for a job and a regular paycheck to afford your basic living expenses. You don't have a job, so sometimes meeting bill due dates or paying the required amount has been difficult and you were dinged on your credit...
Aeropostale Retailer Accused Of Pregnancy Discrimination
Retail clothing giant Aeropostale is facing a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit from a former employee who claims she was consistently harassed by management after informing her superiors that she was expecting a baby. Codie Nelson had been a sales associate at an...
CA Company That Underpaid Mexican Workers Ordered To Pay Damages
A Silicon Valley company employed U.S. and Mexican workers to work alongside each other to refurbish several power generators. Those who were U.S. citizens were paid in dollars and those who were Mexican citizens were paid in pesos. After converting the amount...
Can Refusing A Flu Shot Get Me Fired?
Maybe. Employers may encourage employees to get a flu shot for a variety of reasons: to control health care costs by warding off illness, to manage productivity levels by helping to keep the majority of the workforce healthy and able to work or simply as a 'fringe...
Termination For Artificial Insemination? It Happened
Christa Dias was a computer technology professional, employed by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati , working in two local schools. Dias informed her boss that she had gotten pregnant and he warned her that she would probably lose her job. Dias was unmarried and the...
Why Hire Bononi Law Group?
You can choose among many California law firms when seeking an attorney for your employment law matter. Here are four reasons you should consider Bononi Law Group.