The laws that govern employer responsibility and work environments codify protection from abuses like discrimination and harassment. Businesses run by individuals and large corporations alike are required to abide by both state and federal laws restricting certain...
Discrimination
2 ways that sex discrimination manifests in the modern workplace
Many people like to act as though sex discrimination is not an issue in the U.S. anymore. They point to major strides that women have made in securing representation in technical fields and within highly paid professions to support their perspective. However, for the...
2 common ways employers may violate the ADA
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...
When might layoffs at work be a form of discrimination?
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...
How common is racial discrimination in nursing?
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...
What is ageism, and how might it affect you at work?
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...
How do I bring a complaint against my employer?
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...
Discrimination: Just how prevalent is it?
Workplaces around America have a history of workplace discrimination. It’s an unfortunate truth that many people who go to work have to put up with gender discrimination, disability discrimination and other issues. Fortunately, the Equal Employment Opportunity...
How can I tell if I’m in a hostile work environment?
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...
How federal employees can fight back against mistreatment at work
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...