by Jay Butchko | Dec 22, 2022 | Discrimination Harassment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent pieces of federal and state legislation have attempted to ban employment discrimination based on an employee’s physical characteristics, family background, beliefs, and aspects of the employee’s personal life unrelated to...
by Jay Butchko | Dec 16, 2022 | Discrimination Harassment
Federal and state employment laws, including the employment-related provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability, among other protected characteristics. The law requires employers to make...
by Jay Butchko | Nov 4, 2022 | Discrimination Harassment
Requesting reasonable accommodations for a disability is a legally protected action; this means that it is against the law for employers to retaliate against employees who request accommodations, such as by harassing the employee at work or terminating the employee’s...
by Jay Butchko | Oct 28, 2022 | Discrimination Harassment
Working for a temporary staffing agency is certainly better than being out of a job, but it is not a cushy job by any stretch of the imagination. Going all the way through the application and interview process only yields you a few paychecks before the temporary...
by Jay Butchko | Oct 21, 2022 | Discrimination Harassment
Employees who file discrimination complaints may cite any of a variety of adverse actions that their employers took against them on the basis of a protected characteristic, such as race, sex, religion, country of origin, or age. One example of an adverse action is...
by Jay Butchko | Sep 16, 2022 | Discrimination Harassment
The saying goes that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but for many women who worked at Kay Jewelers or Jared, the work environment in which they sold diamonds was anything but friendly. If you have followed the news about employment discrimination lawsuits, you can...
