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Being fired shortly after reporting workplace discrimination, sexual harassment or other unlawful conduct at your workplace can raise questions about your employer's motives. The timing may suggest retaliation, particularly if you had no previous performance issues or...
Oftentimes, people who are experiencing sexual harassment on the job will not report it. This sometimes becomes clear when one person finally comes forward to make their report, and others join in, indicating that similar things have been happening to them for months...
You may have worked late nights, covered extra shifts or regularly stayed past your scheduled hours without receiving the overtime pay you deserve. Perhaps you assumed your employer would eventually correct the missing payments, or you only recently realized that your...
Despite finishing a 50-hour week on a jobsite or on the production floor, many manual employees still receive the same flat amount on their weekly paychecks. If they bring this up with their employer, the answer is usually this: “You earn a salary, so we do not pay...
Sexual harassment at work is not always obvious. Some conduct may cross the line even when it is not openly sexual or does not involve physical contact. Whether workplace conduct amounts to sexual harassment depends on the nature of the behavior, the circumstances and...
Most claims of workplace racism involve people from different backgrounds and cultures clashing in a professional environment. Sometimes, claims stem from institutional racism, which involves company policies that have a disparate impact on people of a specific race...
"Quid pro quo," in a general sense, is just a term relating to an exchange. This could be an exchange of goods or services. One thing of value is being offered in exchange for another. In the context of sexual harassment, then, quid pro quo harassment is when a person...
Comp time, also known as compensatory time off, is a tactic that an employer may try to use to avoid paying an employee for overtime hours that they already worked. For instance, say that an employee works for 44 hours during the week. They should be entitled to time...
Some harassment or discrimination cases revolve around overt and obvious instances where an employee's rights have been violated. If an employer refuses to hire someone based on their race or gender, or fires all employees within that protected class, it could be...
Sometimes, a work shift can feel as grueling as a day on the set of “Mean Girls.” Relational aggression is the term psychologists chose for the status-manipulating machinations that can leave colleagues isolated and excluded in the workforce. To be sure, not every...