If you recently lost your job due to a company downsizing, you may wish to determine which of your coworkers also lost theirs. Why? Because if you discover that significantly more of you are women or older workers or some other protected group, you may have a...
What constitutes a wrongful termination?
As its name implies, a wrongful termination occurs when your employer fires you illegally. Even though California is an at-will employment state, meaning that either you or your employer can terminate your employment whenever one of you wishes, certain situations...
How common is age discrimination in California?
According to the California Employers Association, an estimated 24% of the workforce will be over the age of 55 by 2024. Federal law prohibits discrimination in employment matters on the basis of age, as does the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.Between the...
What can you do about workplace sexual harassment?
Despite the fact that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace, it still remains a serious problem in America. The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
What are some tell-tale signs of age discrimination?
If you are age 40 or older, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects you from age-based discrimination in the workplace. Despite this federal law, however, workplace ageism remains an all-too-frequent occurrence in the U.S.Age discrimination expresses...
Is workplace bullying a form of sexual harassment?
If you have become the victim of workplace bullying, you know how humiliating and distressful it is. But if one or more coworkers are bullying you, can you file a sexual harassment claim under Title VII? The answer is, maybe. It all depends on the nature of the...
How can sexual harassment affect your experience at work?
If you have been the victim of sexual harassment at your workplace in California, it has probably done more than cause you to feel uncomfortable. If left ignored, not only could you experience increasingly negative side effects, but the perpetrator of your harassment...
Sexual harassment prevention training is mandatory
In recent years employers and employees alike have become quite familiar with what sexual harassment is, where it occurs and how it impacts the overall workplace. Many of our readers in California, like many others throughout the country, probably once were at the...
Understanding key aspects of sexual harassment
Lots of people like to say that we live in a society these days in which some people get offended too easily. However, the reality is that offensive conduct, including sexual harassment, does indeed occur in the workplace with alarming frequency. When it comes to...
New sexual harassment laws enacted
California has been on the forefront of taking action to protect workers in recent years, with court rulings and new laws providing more protection than ever before it seems. And, as California has been the focal point of the so-called #MeToo movement, national media...
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.