Pregnancy Discrimination in California: Why Employers With Fewer Than Five Employees May Still Be Liable

California employees sometimes assume that pregnancy discrimination laws do not protect them if they work for a very small employer. Employers may make the same assumption. The reason is understandable. California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which prohibits discrimination based on sex and pregnancy, generally applies to employers that regularly employ five or more Read More …

$5 Million California Workplace Harassment Verdict in Sample v Cemex: What Made the Case So Strong?

A recent $5 million California workplace harassment verdict out of the the Northern District of California illustrates an important point about employment discrimination and harassment cases: the strength of a case often depends not merely on whether illegal conduct occurred, but on the severity of the conduct, the vulnerability of the employee targeted, and the Read More …

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 …