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If you work as a restaurant server, you likely depend on your tips to make a wage that you can live on. While tipping has long been entrenched in United States culture, many believe that this approach should be curtailed. Aside from the arguments that restaurants...
Have you recently lost your job with seemingly no explanation? Or maybe you did receive a reason for your termination, but you are now questioning it, especially if you were in recent conflict with your employer. Knowing the reasons and the signs of wrongful...
In many cases, company layoffs come with a severance agreement for the terminated employees. Sometimes employees find severance agreements confusing, especially if this is the first one they have received. When you recognize the key elements of a severance agreement,...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act protect employees in Pennsylvania from sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment is when someone makes unsolicited sexual advances to another either explicitly or...
Terminating an employee due to a disability is unlawful on both the federal and state levels. But what if they pose a danger to others in the workplace or fall short of expectations? Disability discrimination rules and regulations might be difficult to navigate, but...
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a real problem with severe consequences. Although it is generally more common to hear of female workers experiencing this misconduct, anyone can be a victim. For example, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
In the world of work, unfair treatment sometimes rears its ugly head. For instance, injustices can be found where older employees may find it challenging to stand up against wrongful termination. Proving age discrimination can be tough to crack without concrete...
Sexual harassment occurs in virtually every professional industry. However, research shows that certain environmental factors make it more likely in some business environments than in others. Employers that have one or more of these risk factors in place may need to...
Did you know that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which established federal minimum wage and overtime pay and banned child labor, excluded housekeepers, laborers, nannies, tipped employees and day laborers? This law encouraged employers to steal real wages from...
Despite many efforts across the board to reduce discrimination of all kinds in the workplace, it still continues to plague workers across the nation. In some cases, employers may not even realize what they engage in is an act of discrimination. This often applies to...
