The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to provide workers with reasonable accommodations if it does not cause an undue hardship. Individuals who require some assistance to perform tasks may ask for it without fear of losing their jobs. An accommodation...
First, under the FEHA an employer is prohibited from discriminating against an employee due to a physical or mental disability. A physical disability is defined as including “any physiological disease, disorder, condition” that affects a person’s neurological or...
The workplace can create situations where discrimination can easily happen. Any time you have a group of people where there is a minority such issues often come up. One way your employer may try to reduce discrimination and create a work environment where everyone...
You have a right to feel comfortable in your California work environment, and you should not have to deal with sexual harassment while trying to make a living. Research shows that sexual harassment continues to be a problem in many American work environments. Also,...
A truck driver who alleged that his supervisors sexually harassed him could not go forward with his claim of a hostile work environment where the evidence showed that while the supervisors may have treated men and women differently, the disparate treatment did not...