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A recent study demonstrates that sexual harassment is widespread in the restaurant industry, especially for restaurant workers who rely on tips (or “tipped workers”). For instance, according to “The Tipping Point: How the Subminimum Wage Keeps Incomes Low and...
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, "[a] recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that mistreatment — categorized as discrimination, verbal or physical abuse and sexual harassment — may contribute to burnout and suicidal thoughts in surgical...
Chipotle "will pay $95,000 and make substantial changes to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)." According to the EEOC, Austin Melton, a San Jose, California Chipotle store manager who was...
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (the “FEHA”) makes certain employment practices unlawful, including discrimination and harassment of employees by employers. Currently, under California law, if an employee wants to file a lawsuit against his current or...
A former employee of Juul Labs -- an electronic cigarette company headquartered in San Francisco -- has filed a lawsuit alleging that Juul Labs retaliated against her after she reported sexual harassment. Specifically, the former employee Carrie Chuang alleges that...
In a recently filed lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the "EEOC") charged that Sprint-authorized retailer Elite Wireless Group, Inc. "violated federal law when the retailer failed to address a male store manager who sexually assaulted a young...
Originally Published on August 28, 2020; Revised on February 10, 2021 n the California Court of Appeal decision, Galvan v. Dameron Hospital Association (2019) 37 Cal.App.5th 549, the Court of Appeal discusses the types of workplace statements (by a supervisor) that...
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...
Your supervisor is having an affair with your co-worker, and everyone knows it. Your supervisor has never subjected you to coercive behavior or unwanted sexual advances. Nonetheless, you may have a viable sexual harassment claim on the basis of "sexual favoritism"...