Many employers implement dress codes to help maintain a professional environment and to promote employee safety. However, sometimes, these policies can infringe on employee rights or disproportionately affect certain groups of employees within a company. In such...
Experiencing workplace sexual harassment can be relatively demoralizing for a worker. They may come to fear arriving for work each day because of the misconduct they endure. In many cases, harassment can potentially have a chilling effect on someone's career...
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal law that provides eligible employees with unpaid, job-protected leave for specific family and medical reasons. This includes up to 12 weeks of leave in a 12-month period for the birth and care of a newborn child,...
There are many personal characteristics that employers should never consider when making decisions about people's jobs. These protected characteristics include race, religion and sex. There are also federal rules against age discrimination. Older workers have more...
In an era where transparency and accountability are paramount in the healthcare industry, the False Claims Act stands as a stalwart guardian, helping to ensure that healthcare whistleblowers can raise their concerns without fear of retaliation. The False Claims Act...
Employers sometimes provide workers with paid leave that they can use on special occasions, like vacations, or when they have health issues that prevent them from doing their jobs. Not every worker has paid time off benefits, and even those that do may not have enough...
Most people don’t realize that the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law at the end of 2022 includes two legal provisions that should be of interest to anyone who works while they’re pregnant or nursing. Those...
At some point in everyone’s lives, people are thrown into the wild and often unpredictable world that is employment, and with that comes every employee’s right to safe and fair work. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), every employee is guaranteed the same...
You didn't take a new job anticipating that you would become a whistleblower there, but that may be what eventually happens. If you discover illegal billing practices or uncover signs of harassment targeting certain people at the company, you may very well feel like...
Some sexual harassment involves a hostile workplace. There is a culture at the company that makes someone feel uncomfortable and unsafe around co-workers or clients. Other times, the issue experience involves quid pro quo sexual harassment. Quid pro quo is a Latin...
