sexism
Every day presents different employment law issues, including pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. Today, a woman came to my office. She had worked for a call center for a short period of time. When she was hired, she was newly pregnant, and didn’t disclose it because she wasn’t showing and feared nobody would hire her. Three months […]
An interesting issue came up today. A potential client sent me the following email: “I had my job threatened on several occasions, I have had raises held back due to taking leave for having a baby. I was threatened to be fired if I got pregnant (which I was pregnant at the time and had to take […]
Today presented another interesting issue regarding the workplace. A night time supervisor at a hotel was passed over for a promotion to night shift manager because the owner of the hotel felt that it was too dangerous of a position for her. Instead, he promoted a man, claiming that he was looking out for the […]
An interesting case I handled this month involved a female employee who was working for a large company. She had a male supervisor who, in the past, had made sexually charged remarks to her and even groped her breasts once before. My client reported this to HR but declined to move forward with the claim […]