by Hee Kim | Oct 31, 2025 | Discrimination Harassment, Pregnancy Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment
Workplace discrimination is not typically overt or blatant. Someone experiencing racial discrimination, for example, may not be the victim of racial slurs. In other cases, the discrimination may not even be intentional. A supervisor may favor particular employees over...
by Jay Butchko | Jul 5, 2024 | Race Discrimination
Recently, employers have begun to adopt company policies that acknowledge that racial discrimination can manifest itself in rules about employees’ hairstyles. As for state laws, California enacted the Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair (CROWN)...
by Jay Butchko | Jul 6, 2023 | Discrimination Harassment, Race Discrimination
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...
by Jay Butchko | Jun 9, 2023 | Race Discrimination
It is disappointing when your employer does not grant you a promotion for which you have applied and for which you are eligible, but you usually tell yourself, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” When this happens multiple times, though, there might be...
by Jay Butchko | Jun 2, 2023 | Race Discrimination
It is difficult to work in an environment where people assume the worst about you and go out of their way to make it difficult for you to perform your job duties. The legal term for this is a hostile work environment. Sometimes a hostile work environment arises...