All workers in California deserve to be treated fairly in the workplace. Unfortunately, discrimination based on race, color or national origin still occurs. Race, color and national origin as protected categories can be difficult to tell apart. However, they each have...
Gender Discrimination
Female physicians face workplace discrimination, retaliation
It takes years of hard work to get your M.D., but not all doctors are treated equally in the medical field. Gender discrimination is a major problem in the medical field and needs to be addressed in a manner that benefits not only female physicians but the entire...
Video game maker sued for discrimination and sexual harassment
Employees in California and elsewhere expect certain standards to be met in the workplace. No matter the environment, employees presume their safety and wellbeing is a priority. Thus, when an employee believes that something wrong is going us, it is expected that an...
Google agrees to settle discrimination claims
Google has agreed to settle allegations brought by female software engineers who claimed that men received higher salaries for doing the same work and Asian and female job applicants who were denied positions with the company. The U.S. Department of Labor announced...
Addressing workplace discrimination
Workplace discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation or other immutable personal characteristics was once an accepted part of everyday work life. Thanks to decades of struggle by activists in California and the rest of the United States, legal...
Female employees and challenges with “sex-plus” discrimination
It is illegal to discriminate against employees based on classifications of age, race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin or sexual preference. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes this clear. Employees have protections against discrimination at...
What’s the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
Californians are slowly waking up to the fact that men and women don't get paid the same amounts for the same efforts. More often than not -- especially when you look at national averages -- men get paid higher wages than women for the same type, quantity and quality...
Does the pay gap between women and men continue?
After all these years, and after all the fighting for women's rights, you'd think that it would be easy to enact legislation that ensured women received equal pay compared to their male coworkers. However, the pay gap continues. Even though laws do exist to prevent...
Transgender harassment and discrimination in the workplace
Every employee deserves to work in an environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Harassment and discrimination - although illegal - are a reality in many U.S. workplaces.Transgender employees often face...
Sexual harassment and discrimination against female police officers
Law-enforcement is a male-dominated industry. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, about 12 percent of active duty police officers are female. Unfortunately, many female police officers are subject to unfair treatment in their jobs - and this treatment is...
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.