If you've been paying attention to the news as many California residents do, then you may have heard about the announcement made a few months ago by McDonald's Corp. As some of our San Diego readers may remember, McDonald's Corp. announced that it planned on...
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Sports announcer says religious views doomed his employment
If you're a sports fan, you might recollect having seen announcer Craig James covering college football on the Fox Sports Southwest channel a couple years ago -- albeit briefly.In fact, James was virtually gone after a couple eye blinks, with a senior company...
Regulators focus upon company’s retaliation against sick workers
In the realm of bona-fide wage-and-hour complaints against companies that deprive their workers in unethical and illegal ways, there are a lot of stories to tell.Workers are routinely denied overtime pay they are entitled to, for example. Bad-faith employers find ways...
What exactly is a federal Equal Employee Opportunity claim?
Many federal employees in California and elsewhere likely feel despondent and even overwhelmed if they are on the receiving end of discrimination or harassment at the workplace. Being victimized by such behavior can be degrading. Discriminatory and harassing acts can...
New California law gives cheerleaders something to cheer about
Everything seems big about the National Football League.The players. The revenues. The eye-popping salaries doled out. The merchandizing. And, of course, the Super Bowl, delineated in capital letters. It's kind of had to ignore the cheerleaders, too. Do the Dallas...
Focus: retaliation against workers opposing discrimination
Given that American workers are protected against discrimination in the workplace by a number of federal and state laws (please see, for example, our June 15 entry discussing the Americans with Disabilities Act), it shouldn't be surprising that protection also extends...
Focus: seminal importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Although many important points concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act are made in an online overview that serves as a primer on the subject, two things emerge with special force.First, it is unquestionable that the ADA legislation has been seminal in...
Focus: gay rights’ groups and employment discrimination, Part 2
In our immediately preceding blog post, we referred to "the next great battle" concerning gay rights in the United States (please see our July 7 entry). As termed in a recent Los Angeles Times article, that is "the expansion of federal civil rights laws to protect...
Employment discrimination next great battle for gay rights’ groups
The United States Supreme Court ruling that issued late last month legalizing same-sex marriage across the country was, of course, both historical and seminal. In a 5-4 opinion, justices held that the remaining minority of states that had gay-marriage bans immediately...
EEOC on workplace reality: discrimination still widespread
Suffering discrimination at the workplace in California or anywhere else in the United States is not something that any worker ever needs to so.There is no need to meekly endure discriminatory treatment for any reason and with a powerless belief that recourse is not...
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