When You Are Being Pushed Out From Work Due to Age Discrimination

All too often, long-time employees, who have witnessed their employer terminate different workers over the year, have a pretty good idea when their employer is trying to get rid of them as well for because of their age (or for another unlawful, discriminatory reason). Here are a few important things you should keep in mind Read More …

Proving Disability Discrimination Doesn’t Require Proving Ill Will Toward The Employee

In many disability discrimination cases, employers defend their case by claiming that there is no evidence that they had any ill will toward the plaintiff-employee because of his disability, i.e. they never said anything negative about his disability, and didn’t do anything else that would suggest that they on purpose wanted to harm that employee Read More …

Employers’ Duty to Prevent Discrimination And Harassment

California employers have an affirmative duty to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment or discrimination from occurring (Government Code 12940(k). Employers’ duty to prevent discrimination requires that employer respond promptly and properly to allegations of harassment or discrimination that are known to it (Trujillo v. North County Transit District (1998)). And it applies equally to Read More …