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You may have heard employees talk about being trapped below a “glass ceiling”, or you may have seen news articles about individuals who “shattered the glass ceiling.” This is a common term used in reference to employment discrimination. But what does it mean?...
About 46% of workers in the United States who identify as LGBTQ+ have faced unfair treatment at work, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. This alarming statistic highlights the ongoing struggle of workers...
Discrimination does not limit itself to people's age, color, gender or disability; work applicants also encounter unfair treatment because they are single, married, divorced or have plans to marry. Unless it is done for a legitimate business purpose, an employer...
Most people support the idea that qualifications and capability should be the only ways to evaluate employability and that no one should be excluded from an employment opportunity or treated differently for reasons that have nothing to do with job performance. Unfortunately, there need to be laws in place to remind employers that when it comes to employment-related decisions, they…
Gaming’s “Bro Culture” recently took a big hit in California. State Regulators have targeted enforcement actions at two of the biggest players in the video game industry: Activision Blizzard and Riot Games. The investigations into the two companies are a strong show of state force to eliminate workplace bias and discrimination. The Civil Rights Act and various other federal and…
The video game company Riot Games has jumped out of the legal frying pan and into the fire as they backed out of the settlement in the gender discrimination class-action lawsuit against them. They prefer the possibility of hundreds of individual arbitration hearings and an additional class-action lawsuit. If you or somebody you love has faced workplace discrimination in California,…