Ideally, pregnancy should not affect your career path since you expect your knowledge, performance, or experience to speak on your behalf. Unfortunately, it’s not the case for many women in the workforce around the country. Pregnancy discrimination is still rampant...
Maybe you got hurt at work. You might have fallen off of a ladder or suffered an electrical shock from a piece of equipment that left you with nerve damage. Maybe your medical issue is from outside of work. You might have neuropathy that affects your manual dexterity...
Everyone has certain wage rights that are protected under both state and federal laws. Despite the information on this being widely available, many employers still think they can ignore the rules. As an employee, you might be thankful just to have a job or have better...
Workers often face inappropriate retaliation if they assert their rights. For example, an injured worker who files a claim for workers' compensation benefits could find that their employer fires them during their leave of absence. Even those who return to their job...
Sexual harassment can be defined as any unwelcome and unwanted advance or conduct that interferes with an individual’s performance on the job or creates a hostile or intimidating work environment. Workplace sexual harassment is a violation of human rights and a form...
It is illegal for employees to discriminate based on age. This is generally a rule to protect older workers. Clearly, there are laws in place to keep employers from exploiting children, but there were also issues with employers refusing to hire people who were over 40...
Restaurant work has always been challenging. It typically involves working long hours for little financial reward. How much you earn often depends on how your customers feel or how much you're willing to put up with their bad behavior. A series of reports from One...
Sexual harassment in the workplace manifests in many forms, both subtle or obvious. When it happens, you can feel shocked, angry and helpless. For these reasons, most people fear talking about sexual harassment in the workplace for fear that the abuser may retaliate...
Job injuries are an ever-present risk for workers in any industry. Nurses could throw out their backs lifting a patient, while factory workers could lose a limb to a machine. Whether you experienced a catastrophic injury or developed a repetitive stress injury, you...
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), workers at most businesses have the right to expect accommodations for disabling medical conditions. Whether they need wheelchair access to a facility or computer access accommodations because of vision problems, their...