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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"...
According to the Los Angeles Times, a state judicial watchdog commission has charged California Court of Appeal Justice Jeffrey Johnson with nine counts of misconduct, including sexual harassment. Justice Johnson allegedly squeezed a female justice's breast and "told...
Under California law, it is unlawful for an employee to sexually harass another employee. A less known fact is that under California law, it is also unlawful for a non-employee (such as a client, customer, or trespasser) to sexually harass an employee. And in certain...
Earlier this month, the University of Massachusetts - Amherst's Center for Employment Equity released a study entitled Employers' Responses to Sexual Harassment. Among other things, the study finds as follows: 1. Approximately 5 million employees are sexually harassed...
According to The Sacramento Bee, Christopher James Lewis, a captain at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, California, has been charged with groping a woman. The Sacramento Bee also notes that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has "paid...
USA Today reports that according to the Washington D.C. firm Hart Research Associates, "[f]orty percent of female fast-food workers have been sexually harassed on the job" and "[m]ost affected are African-American and Latina women." Read the full article entitled...
According to The Sacramento Bee, the legislative proposals that have "emerged in response to the #MeToo movement" are "expansive and ambitious." "[M]ore than a dozen proposals now await[ ] a signature or veto from Gov. Jerry Brown." Read the full article, entitled...
According to Outside Magazine, women who work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service "face not just aggressive come-ons and groping, but also an employment structure that remains intricately rigged against them and a complaint process designed to turn...