Discrimination

California's CROWN Act is over a year old. Yet not every employer will have got the message. There is still a chance your boss discriminates against you because of your hair. CROWN stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. The act aims to...

You know that your boss doesn’t like you. They always treat you aggressively, often making you feel like you wish you hadn’t come to work. You wish they’d treat you like an adult, but they never do. Is this something you just have to deal with? Are they allowed to...

If you work at one of the big tech or social media companies such as Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Amazon, you probably signed a nondisclosure agreement. You may have signed a non-disparagement one too. The "Silenced No More Act" targets these documents as...

Both federal and California state laws protect workers in need of disability accommodations. Employers cannot discriminate against existing workers or candidates capable of performing the functions of a job with reasonable accommodations. Unfortunately, while...

You might think that women in the upper echelon of their company’s structure would generally be safe from gender bias and discrimination -- but that’s not always true. Take, for example, the recent settlement by Pinterest to the tune of $22.5 million for...

What does an ancient social system in India have to do with Silicon Valley? Everything, if you happen to be a Dalit living and working in California’s tech industry. Indian tech workers in California say that discrimination based on caste -- a social system that once...

When you think about racial discrimination in the workplace, it’s natural to assume that people of a certain race are being discriminated against based on that race. For instance, a white employer refuses to hire any African American employees. This is a clear...

Sometimes, it’s possible to experience discrimination at work because of your race, religion or other characteristic without it being obvious. While blatant discrimination does still happen, such as when a business owner fires all of the African American employees and...

There is a famous quote, by Martin Niemölle, about the importance of speaking up when you see discrimination. It tells how the Nazis came for various groups of people, yet he did not speak out because he was not a member of those groups. It ends, “Then they came for...

A go-getter, competitive and assertive personality is one that employers value in the workplace, right? It might depend on the industry or the job position; that is true. According to a recent research study, it also depends on your age. The older someone is, the less...