A California woman recently filed a lawsuit against her former employer citing racial discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination. The woman claims that she was fired from her job because she is white and because she had filed a complaint about being harassed...
Month: February 2013
Woman sues employer for firing her over Obama vote
In San Diego, employers may choose to terminate employees for many reasons or for no reason at all. In California, many employment relationships are presumed to be "at-will," which means employers may choose to fire employees with or without a good reason for doing...
College in San Diego fires employee for having premarital sex
Employees in San Diego might assume that what they choose to do outside of work will remain private and have no effect on their jobs or their ability to do their jobs. For example, the decision to have a sexual relationship with someone else outside of work is...
Employers still looking at credit reports during hiring process
Two realities resulting from the abysmal state of the economy are unemployment and financial hardship. The two often go hand-in-hand for folks in San Diego, creating quite a paradox: an unemployed person needs a job to pay for his or her monthly bills, yet those...
Sales reps file class action lawsuit over gender discrimination
Earlier this week on our San Diego employment law blog, we had mentioned that the wage gap between men and women in the workplace still exists today, even though the Equal Pay Act was passed 50 years ago.Some have argued that the wage gap doesn't necessarily reflect...
Wage gap between men and women still exists in San Diego
Although 50 years have passed since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law, women in San Diego and throughout the entire U.S. are still earning less than men. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women are earning about 82.2 cents for every dollar men...
Woman says job was eliminated at Oprah’s network due to pregnancy
Before becoming pregnant, a senior director of scheduling and acquisitions at Oprah Winfrey's OWN network seemed to be on her way to landing the vice president position at the network. The employee had received great performance reviews while working for OWN, and she...
Burger King pays teen $25,000 in religious discrimination lawsuit
Employers in San Diego have the power to fire employees who aren't complying with company policies or doing their jobs properly. Yet, when a company terminates employment, employers must make sure their reasons for terminating employees are lawful.One company...
Numerous wage and hour law violations discovered at Chino warehouse
When San Diego workers believe that their rights have been violated in the workplace, they may need to reach out to an attorney in order to make sure they put a stop to their employers' illegal actions and unethical ways of conducting business. State agencies may even...
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