AVOIDING EMPLOYEE RETALIATION CLAIMS

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEO”) reports that the number of claims alleging unlawful retaliation has skyrocketed since 1997, from 22.7% to 41.1% of all claims filed. Retaliation is currently the most common basis for complaints filed with the...

EQUAL PAY ALREADY IS THE LAW

Income equality and equal pay lately have been hot topics in political circles. The proposed Paycheck Fairness Act‘s proponents claim the law would help narrow the wage gap between men and women, notwithstanding ongoing debate over the statistics. Employers should be...

CALIFORNIA LAW PROTECTS EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTIVITY

Social and political activists increasingly use social media to pressure employers to take action against executives for engaging in non-work related activities. In a well-publicized recent example, Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox search engine, recently came...

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