Noncompete agreements protect employers. They prevent you from working for or doing business with a competitor. The idea is to protect company secrets and prevent people from infiltrating an organization to learn things to help another company. However, non-compete...
Year: 2021
Are employers responsible for workers mistreated by customers?
Employees often find themselves at the mercy of a customer’s or client’s mood. From a transaction gone awry in a busy store to a food order error in a high-traffic restaurant to a perceived contract breach at a small business, customers often take out their...
What should an employment agreement cover?
Whether you are signing one or creating one, it is essential to ensure an employment agreement covers all the important aspects of the job. It needs to create a clear picture of expectations and make it easy to start off on the right foot. When assessing an employment...
Why is sexual harassment so pervasive in restaurants?
Some Pennsylvania work environments see more sexual harassment than others. If you make your living working in the restaurant or food-service industry, you face a particularly high chance of falling victim to sexual harassment. Restaurant environments have many...
What you should know about requests for reasonable accommodation
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires employers to grant reasonable accommodations to members of their workforce who have a disability. In general, reasonable accommodations are modifications to people’s working conditions that enable them to work...
Federal law prohibits employers from terminating in retaliation
The Whistleblower Protection Program prohibits employers from terminating employees in retaliation for reporting violations. As noted on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Whistleblowers.gov website, typical unlawful situations employees may report without fear of...
4 steps to take if you have been discriminated against at work
A recent study finds that 86% of Generation Z workers say they’ve experienced workplace discrimination or abuse. According to Forbes, an astounding 70% of all respondents said employers or coworkers had mistreated them. While instances of workplace discrimination...
Sexual harassment victims often face termination, retaliation
Having to deal with sexual harassment at your Pennsylvania place of business is bad enough. Yet, research shows that many victims of workplace sexual harassment also face retaliation or termination after reporting the behavior. This is among the many reasons why you...
Navigating your noncompete agreement
There are all kinds of employee contracts, many of which look to trade a career or other compensation in exchange for maintaining protections on employer assets. Noncompetes are one of those and they aim to keep you as a worker from competing against your employer...
Is workplace gaslighting a form of discriminiation?
Individuals who experience workplace discrimination may find themselves in a position where their employers or other employees of a company try to force them to quit. However, some forms of abuse, such as gaslighting, are not always immediately apparent. The Society...