Workplace Discrimination

A former employee of Fidelity Investments has sued her former company, citing discrimination and a hostile workplace environment that includes sexist and racist comments. California residents may be interested in how state law handles discrimination claims. Racial and...

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...

When most people think of discrimination, they immediately think of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the fight against racial discrimination of all forms. However, the civil rights movement of the 1960s benefited many other categories of people and employees - in addition...

A new piece of sexual harassment legislation has become law in California. The new measure prevents employers from requiring victims of sexual harassment to sign a nondisclosure agreement when they settle their cases. The measure will prevent numerous abuses that...

Laid-off workers have filed a class action age discrimination complaint against IBM. The workers claim that IBM has purposefully terminated tens of thousands of "older" workers in a clear effort to "make the face of IBM younger." The lawsuit on behalf of the workers...

There are many ways that California employees suffer from discrimination. It could be discrimination based on race, national origin, sexual preference, gender, political persuasion, disability and other issues. Regardless of the type of discrimination, workers may be...

If you're extremely sensitive to chemicals, you know exactly who you are. You've likely lived your life encountering people who don't believe that you become physically ill when you're in the presence of strong cleaning solution fumes. You've probably learned how to...

If you're a homosexual worker living and working in the state of California, you're in luck. Our state is one of the ones that offers protections to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community from workplace discrimination. This is important...

No one expects – in this modern age – to be victimized by employment-related discrimination. Whether you are a minority, a person with a disability, a woman or a person who belongs to a certain religion, you probably expect that your employer will respect current laws...

We've all heard stories from friends about the strange and unfair things that have happened to them "on the job." Maybe some odd things have happened to you as well, but it's doubtful that anything can top the following unusual reasons for being fired that have made...