This is our second post in a series on employees’ rights when they get laid-off from work.  In our last post, I pointed out that even though an employee may have been “laid-off” with several other employees, that does not necessarily mean they were not wrongfully terminated in being chosen for layoff.  This post deals [...]

This post is part of our ongoing series dealing with “family status” discrimination.  Family status claims implicate several employment laws, depending on the facts of a given case.  For example, the federal Equal Pay Act (”EPA”) and also California law mandate “equal pay” between men and women.

The fact that women disproportionately care for children in the United States is likely a direct contributor to the fact that women still tend…

This is our third post in our series on “family status” discrimination. The last post dealt with examples of “moral stereotyping” where an employer’s belief on what women should do motivates their discrimination. This post deals with what I call “assumption” stereotyping, which deals with instances where an employer is motivated by their beliefs about what women will do, given their family status…

In these situations, the employer’s concerns

This is my second post in our multi-part series on “family status” discrimination, which is becoming more and more common under both federal and state law.

There are many ways family status discrimination can happen in the workplace, some of which are very subtle and difficult to prove. Other types are not subtle at all, such as the topic of today’s post, which is what I call “Moral Stereotyping”…

One employment law claim that has been quickly becoming more popular these days is “family status discrimination”. That is, discriminating against someone based on their familial obligations or simply because they have a family in the first place.
Widespread use of this claim is so recent that it does not even have a consistent name in legal circles. We call it “family status discrimination”, but others call it “family…

California Senate Bill 836 was heralded nationwide as the first law prohibiting employer discrimination against employees based on their “family status”.

For example, discrimination against employees who are single parents who have to take their child to the doctor would be…

Sometimes it is easy to forget that discrimination against women, minorities and (of course) minority women still occurs in this country.

This might bring to mind examples where uneducated, unskilled women are denied employment and/or harassed by uneducated men who think of them as sex objects, such as in the movie North Country.

However, as discussed on Susan Cartier Liebel’s blog, this subject comes up…

Last week I found out I was pregnant. The next day, I went into work and told my boss. He said that he does not allow pregnant women to work there because they disrupt scheduling when they take time off to have the baby. He terminated me and said I could re-apply for my position after I have…