Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Court Rules Against Hospital for Retaliation Against Oncologist Who Filed Whistleblower Claims
Employers have the right to take adverse actions against employers who do their jobs poorly. If you do not fulfill your job duties in a satisfactory way, your employer has the right to write negative reviews of your performance and to deny your applications for promotions. If you consistently perform poorly over a period… Read More »
Food Bank Whistleblower Sues Former Employer for Retaliation
In addition to being one of the nation’s leading producers of food, California also has some of the most climate-friendly laws. In 2016, the California Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act, also known as SB 1383, became law. It aims to reduce greenhouse gasses in California. Specifically, it targets methane emissions produced by organic waste… Read More »
Protections Against Retaliation Apply Whether You Complain to Your Employer or to an Outside Regulatory Body
It is against the law for your employer to fire you or otherwise punish you for exercising your legal rights. The rights of employees include receiving the payment promised to them by their employers and required by law, taking a leave of absence from work pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA),… Read More »
County Settles With Social Worker Fired in Retaliation for Whistleblower Claims
Whistleblower protections apply to all employees who report misconduct by their employers. These protections prohibit employers from firing, demoting, or otherwise taking adverse actions against employees when they report misconduct by their supervisors internally within the company or to regulators or other third parties. It is against the law for your employer to fire… Read More »
Can You Get Disability Accommodations for Chronic Pain?
Laws that prevent employment discrimination on the basis of disability cover a wide variety of physical and mental health conditions which present difficulties in everyday life and for which the person requires an accommodation in order to do his or her job. An accommodation is a modification to the work environment or work schedule… Read More »
Is It Disability Discrimination If Your Employer Fired You Before Your Diagnosis?
Many health conditions do not progress in the way that Hollywood screenwriters would expect. Symptoms can improve or worsen unexpectedly, sometimes for reasons unrelated to known triggers. You may visit multiple doctors over a period of years, and they may disagree about the underlying cause of your symptoms. None of this is your employer’s… Read More »
County Court Administrator Alleges Whistleblower Retaliation
One of the best things about being a public sector employee with a 9 to 5 job is that you never have to work on federal holidays. If you go to a social gathering on such an occasion, the other guests will be amazed at your stories of the dysfunction that goes on in… Read More »
Systemic Racial Hostility or Discrimination in the Workplace
It is difficult to work in an environment where you may be treated unfairly because of your race. Racism in the workplace is not always overt – it will be unlikely that there is a policy in place that favors one race over another. But deliberate actions by management or staff motivated by malice,… Read More »
Employee Sues County for Wrongful Termination, Alleging That It Fired Her in Retaliation for Discrimination Complaint
Employment discrimination lawyers have noticed a pattern in the cases about which clients consult them. Many times, the general lack of welcome with which co-workers receive them is not what sets off alarms in the minds of employees. Instead, the tipping point is the hostile response that the employee receives when he or she… Read More »
Attempting To Appeal To Young Consumers Is No Excuse For Age Discrimination
Marketing products to young consumers is a tried-and-true strategy for businesses. You can get a lifetime of brand loyalty, but more importantly, consumers in their 20s tend to spend enthusiastically on dining, entertainment, and status symbol consumer goods. They are much more lucrative marks than middle-aged consumers who have no leisure time and are… Read More »
