Discrimination

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) helps protect people with disabling medical conditions from discrimination in education, employment, access to public facilities and housing. Unfortunately, despite the ADA being decades old, American society still does not...

Companies of varying sizes lay off employees for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, the business has gone through a difficult time and has to make hard decisions to pare down its operations to remain solvent. Companies lay off workers during business bankruptcy and...

Those who go into nursing often make major sacrifices to help others. They work long shifts, giving up weekends and holidays with their families. They expose themselves to violent individuals when they work at the emergency room or viral infections during the flu...

Federal law establishes numerous protected characteristics for those in the workplace. Companies cannot discriminate against individual employees based on their protected characteristics. Many of the highest-profile workplace discrimination have involved sex or racial...

Defending your rights as an employee is often more complicated than we expect. When your employer violates your employee rights, it can be hard to know what to do to hold them accountable. When it comes to taking action against your employer, the process for doing so...

One way to make a successful workplace discrimination claim in Indiana is to prove is that you were subjected to a hostile work environment. Working for an overly demanding boss alongside lazy and rude coworkers in a run-down workplace can certainly make your job...

Just like workers in the private sector, employees of the federal government have the right to a workplace free from illegal discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation for whistleblowing and wrongful termination. But the way that federal workers enforce these...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to some older workers taking early retirement, many others remain on the job. They have a living to make, a family that depends on them and bills to pay. However, certain companies do not value experienced and older workers,...

If you have a disability, you are not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 61 million adults live with a disability in the United States. You deserve to be treated with respect, and if you believe that your employer is...

Gender discrimination is one of the most common forms of employment discrimination in the United States. Though men and women can potentially be victimized, most often, it is women who suffer the career-altering effects of this pernicious workplace bias. More...