Disability Discrimination in the Workplace
One of the most important civil rights in America is the right to find, choose, and hold employment without discrimination against one’s nationality, race, color, religion, gender, sexual preference, marital status, age, and disability. Despite the laws that were created to protect people from such discrimination, many are still being discriminated especially in the workplace. On top of this is the discrimination against people with disabilities. If you have experienced disability discrimination in the workplace, here are some pieces of important information you need to know in order for you to handle it effectively.
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Why Policies, Procedures, Manuals & Training are Important
There are strict labor laws governing minimum wage, rest breaks, and overtime. Overtime is one of the areas that is least understood and the area that employers try to circumnavigate. One argument or justification that employers try to use is the total number of hours worked in a pay period, rather than what the law clearly states, and that is overtime accrues on a week to week basis, regardless of the pay period.
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Number One Spot in EEOC Complaints – Retaliation Claims
The reason for the rise in retaliation claims is simple – they are easier to prove and the damage awards are often higher than claims of discrimination. Retaliation claims typically assert that an employer took some adverse action against an employee, because the employee exercised a legal right, such as filing a discrimination claim. Courts often rule in favor of employees in the retaliation part of their lawsuits, even when the underlying discrimination claim is dismissed.
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Denver Hotel Faces Discrimination Lawsuit
The Brown Palace Hotel
is at the center of a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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After Signing a Release can an Employee Sue?
The release is supposed to settle all claims and ensure everlasting peace. But employees may have second thoughts and sue you anyway. That’s when some employers learn a costly lesson: A signed release doesn’t always block a wrongful dismissal suit.
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Child Labor Violations Hits a Phoenix McDonalds Restaurant
The department reported that Bill Taylor, president of B&D Taylor Inc., which owns the McDonald’s on Sweet Air Road in Phoenix, has paid $20,502.05 in back wages to five workers, two of whom are still in his employ. The workers were not compensated for overtime hours, federal officials said. The company will also pay $9,990 in penalties for violating restrictions on the hours minors can work and tasks they can perform, officials said. Taylor could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
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Workplace Retaliation – What is it?
In the United States, for instance, there are a number of laws that specifically address workplace retaliation. In short, most of the laws that grant employee rights contain provisions that prohibit reprisals when employees assert those rights. To be considered retaliation, an employer’s action usually must have a negative effect on someone’s employment situation.
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Avoid Discrimination Lawsuits – Follow Simple Steps
As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Employment discrimination lawsuits commonly cost tens of thousands to those who win them and hundreds of thousands more to those who don’t.
Employers face damages for lost wages, emotional injuries, an employee’s legal fees, and more. They can be ordered to train employees or submit to state oversight of their policies. Worst of all for defendants in employment discrimination lawsuits, they ultimately realize that the whole mess was preventable.
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Sexual Harassment and Non-Employees – Employers Beware
Does employers have liability for harassment by non employees in their workplace? May be if they should have known.
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What You Need to Know About the EEO Department
Employers must be mindful of these statutes, as well as State and International laws, when hiring and firing employees, offering promotions or benefits, and giving or failing to give pay raises.
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