No worker should have to tolerate discrimination or harassment at the workplace. If you experience discrimination due to your race, gender, national origin or other identifying factors, you can file a civil rights complaint against the perpetrator. To bolster your...
Going to work every day can be challenging enough without having to deal with illegal workplace discrimination. If you suspect your employer may be treating you differently because of your race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex or even age, you may have a...
Pregnant women often face discrimination at their places of employment. But this form of harassment often takes a different form from harassment you may hear a lot about. Because of that, you may not even know that you are a target at first. So what does pregnancy...
The most common type of employment discrimination occurs when an employee experiences intentional discrimination at work. For example, you may see preferential treatment of some other coworker and your membership in a different protected class is the reason why the...
While women are most often thought of as the victims of sexual harassment, this is not always the case. An increasing number of male employees have come forth to file sexual harassment claims against their co-workers and managers. Of the 7,514 sexual harassment claims...
One of the reasons you have stayed with the company for so many years is that the president saw to it that hard-working employees received appropriate recognition and compensation. When the president retired and new management came in, younger workers began to appear....
Texas workers like you deserve to work in a safe environment free of harassment. While many workplaces promise a safe environment, not all of them actually manage to live up to their claims. To protect yourself at work and defend your rights to safety and health, you...
No one should have to deal with discrimination or harassment in the workplace. But fear of reprisal or losing a job can be a powerful motivator to silence those that employers discriminate against. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission protects a number...
There are numerous types of harassment that employees can experience in the workplace. One of them is sexual harassment, and it comes in various forms. Federal law recognizes that discrimination based on sex violates the Civil Rights Act, and most states also prohibit...
Even as you get older, if you still have the ability to perform good work for an employer, your bosses and co-workers should treat you with the respect and dignity that is due any worker in your position. Age discrimination, like other forms of discrimination, is not...
