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On June 27, 2019, the California legislature passed the CROWN Act (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair). The CROWN Act makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate against employees for wearing afros, braids, dreadlocks, and twists. Read more...
Last week, a former Jack in the Box employee, Blanca Ramirez, won $15.4 million (consisting of $10 million in punitive damages) in her lawsuit against Jack in the Box. Among other things, Ramirez alleged age and disability discrimination. Ramirez was 53 years old at...
Originally Published on June 19, 2019; Revised on April 28, 2021 Have you been subjected to disability discrimination in the workplace? Do you have an impairment that is considered a "physical disability" under California law? California law defines "physical...
According to US News & World Report, a “former employee of celebrated American chef Thomas Keller is suing him and his three-star Michelin restaurants for pregnancy discrimination.” Former employee Vanessa Scott-Allen alleges that “she was denied a job transfer...
A recent article in The National Law Review gives a helpful overview of the new California legal developments that provide greater protections for transgender employees. Read the full article, entitled "Transgender Individuals in the Workplace: An Overview of...
According to Forbes, "[m]ore than a third of employees have seen a person in a position of power take advantage of subordinates of the opposite sex," and "[n]early a quarter of women believe their careers have suffered because they turned down romantic attention from...
According to an editorial in Modern Healthcare, “[contributing] to age prejudice [in the nursing profession] is the advent of new technologies like electronic health records, patient-monitoring systems and even devices driven by artificial intelligence.” And “[a]s the...
Under California law, an employer may not terminate an employee’s employment because of the employee’s disability. The question is: what qualifies as a “disability” under California law? According to a California Court of Appeal case, pain and numbness alone do not...
According to The New York Times, women in physically demanding jobs are subjected to pregnancy discrimination and many times suffer miscarriages as a result. The article details the plight of several women who work in warehouses, which "are among the fastest growing...
In a recent lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") charges that after-school camp Cooking Round the World violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") "when it relieved an employee of her duties after she tested positive for...