A Race Discrimination Lawyer's Take on Recent Developments Race is a hot button topic these days. You can't flip on the news without seeing race mention throughout nearly every discussion. Politics, movies, music, money, athletics, and business all have their eyes glued on the issue of race. While the push for equality is ever present, [...]
Don't Suffer in Silence! Workplace Harassment is a Crime It's often hard to tell when you're the victim of workplace harassment. Most harassers do not begin by aggressively bullying others. So you start to let things slide. Confusion often lends hand to silence. Silence tends to turn into common occurrences. And these instances that keep [...]
Is Disability Discrimination Still Rampant? While we have come far as a people, there's still a long road ahead of us. Equality is a winding road up a mountain that takes quite on toll on the body (population) before finally making it to the top. We are not there yet, but our society seems to [...]
You’re Pregnant and Love Your Job, Are You Protected? Whether your pregnancy was planned or a beautiful surprise, the coming nine months will have a life-altering impact on both you and your soon-to-be growing family; so you should not also be forced to deal with pregnancy discrimination from your employer. Unfortunately, many women are, [...]
Harassment has absolutely no place in your workplace, or any workplace. Your employees should feel a sense of comfort in your workplace. This comfort not only is important to the employee as a person, but often allows individuals to do better work. No one can focus on creating quality work if they always feel nervous [...]
A job is much more than just a paycheck to most people. If you’re working full-time then chances are you’re spending more waking hours in the workplace than with your family. Many times you talk more with your co-workers than you do with your family members. As you spend so much of your time and [...]
How a Wrongful Termination Lawyer will Assess your Case Wrongful termination cases can be incredibly difficult to win. This is solely due to “at-will” employment laws throughout our country. Every decent wrongful termination lawyer knows this. However, your wrongful termination case can be successful in many circumstances. You just have to play your cards right. [...]
Are You Down With EEOC? - How To Be An Equal Opportunity Employer Often times, we use this blog to write to individuals suffering from discrimination, consumer rights infringement, and personal injury. We often focus on the bad items employers may inflict on employees, but not every employer is discriminating against different employees. In fact, [...]
The Basics of Disability Discrimination One of the most common forms of discrimination in our society is disability discrimination. While most consider disability discrimination in the workplace, this type of discrimination can happen anywhere. Workplace Discrimination Disability discrimination occurs in the workplace when an employer treats a qualified individual who is an employee or applicant [...]
How To File An EEOC Claim In Missouri As we live in the United States we are afforded the same equal employment opportunity rights of all other citizens. And it certainly is true in Missouri just as it is all over the United States. Still, just like no one person is perfect, no one system [...]
