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- Family Responsibilities Discrimination
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- Southwest Airlines $1 Million Class Action Settlement
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August
- Winning Your Claim for Unpaid Overtime Wages
- Is Accent Discrimination Illegal?
- Transgender Woman Files Lawsuit Against McDonald's for Sexual Harassment
- Medicare and Tricare Fraud Results in $29 Million Settlement
- $4.7 Million for Workplace Sexual Harassment
- How Social Media & Technology Changed the Landscape of Sexual Harassment
- Hobby Lobby Faces Issues with Transgender Employee
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February
- Commissioned Employees and California's Overtime Laws
- Written Disciplinary Notices: If I Don't Sign Will I Be Fired?
- When Should I Contact a Sexual Harassment Attorney?
- Sexual Harassment in Corporate America, Not Just TV Drama
- Oh No, My Paycheck Bounced! Now What?
- Time’s up, the Initiative to End All Workplace Sexual Harassment
- Are You the Bully at Work?
- California Disability Discrimination Law
- Tip Credit v. Tip Pooling, Is It Legal?
- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: How You Can Protect Yourself
- Caught Not Being Sick on Social Media? Here’s What to Expect
- Big Payout for Wrongful Termination of HR Director
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2015
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June
- Companies Burn out Employees See Disastrous Consequences
- Sexually Harassed Female Farm Workers Resolve Suits
- A Whole New Meaning to Swabbing the Poop Deck Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Violation
- Uber Drivers: Employees or Not?
- Specifying California Leaves and Kin Care
- Virgin Is at It Again Revolutionary Employee-Friendly Policies
- Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry Getting Sued
- Quarter Million for FMLA Rights
- Female Comedians Will Face Sexual Harassment at Work Everyday
- The Decision Has Been Made Abercrombie & Fitch Liable for Discrimination
- Housing Non-Profit Had “No Pregnancy” Policy
- May
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April
- A Picture with Snoop Dogg Gets You Dropped like It’s Hot
- City of San Francisco Getting a Hefty Bill
- It’s the Circle of Wrongful Termination
- Robbed at Gunpoint, Pregnant, and Not Getting Paid Properly
- It’s Rough-in the Outback
- Multi-Million Dollar Payout for Unnamed Teen
- Actors Fighting for…a Lower Wage?
- Major Awards in Los Angeles Discrimination Case
- April 14th Is Equal Pay Day
- Non-Exempt, High Wage Earners Might Be Saying Goodbye to Overtime
- A Wildfire in Silicon Valley Ignited
- Health Care Executive Cheated Half a Million Dollars
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March
- In a Lot of Trouble–Indiana’s Controversial New Law
- Can You Be Fired for Speaking to the Press?
- FMLA, Retaliation, and Lawsuits
- Allegations of Racial Discrimination Against GOP Chairman
- Bed, Bath, & Beyond Paying Correct Wages
- The Wolf of Humphrey’s County
- Subtle Sex Discrimination
- Pregnancy and Leave
- He’s the $5 Million Man
- Crunch Wrap Supremes’ Worth of Trouble—Taco Bell Sued
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February
- Tofu House Serving up Meaty Settlements
- The Saga Against the Hijab Continues—Abercrombie and Fitch’s Look Policy’s Shortcomings
- Seasons 52 Restaurant Did Not Want Seasoned Employees
- Burger King Is Grilling up a Lawsuit
- All the Days of Our West Hollywood Lives
- “This Is Going on Your Permanent Record”—Can I Take a Look?
- $1.25 Million Is Not Enough—More Lawsuits for the Raiders
- No One Is Immune from Harassment – Not Even Lawyers
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January
- Mother of Former Target Employee Is Suing for Wrongful Death
- Cartoon Conflicts
- Former Wet Seal Employees Turn to the Law for Help
- California Is Ahead of the Curve; President Obama Wants to Put the Nation on Track
- Rand Paul Doesn’t Believe You’re Disabled, but California Does
- Saks Fifth Avenue Defending Their “Right” to Fire a Transgender Employee
- New Court Ruling Changes On-Call Employment Laws
- 49ers Hitting a Bad Luck Streak
- Teen Retailer Struggling and so Are Its Employees
- Revlon Has an Unforgettable Lawsuit
- Opening 2015 with an Investigation
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2014
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December
- The Most Bizarre Employment News Stories of 2014
- Can Employees Be Restricted to ‘Half” Truths?
- Michaels and the Art of Background Checks
- The Founder of American Apparel Terminated for Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
- After a Hack like Sony’s, a Lawsuit Is No Surprise
- America’s Next Top Lawsuit
- Department of Labor—Answering Your Impending Paid Sick Leave Questions
- First—Criminal Murder Trial, Second—Civil Lawsuit
- Teen Delivery Driver Terminated for Having Cancer
- Middle-Age Is the New ‘Old’
- Jamba Juice Faces a Whirlin’ Class Action Lawsuit
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November
- Are English-Only Rules Lawful?
- Black Friday Protests—a Walmart Tradition
- Navy Captain “Relieved of Duty” for Hostile Work Environment
- Jury Awards Autozone Manager $185 Million in Punitive Damages for Pregnancy Discrimination Case
- Stress Relievers at Work Make for Happier Camper
- A Lawsuit for Lawsuit—a Sexual Harassment Case Turns into Insurance Battle
- Millennials in the Work Force
- You Have Been Deactivated-Uber’s Scifi Way of Terminating a Driver
- Movember Is Coming—How No Shave November Impacts the Workplace
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October
- How (Not) to Celebrate Halloween at Work
- The Latest Development from Apple Isn’t About Technology
- Here in the OC, How Much Do These Job Really Make?
- If You Want to Report by Telegraph, Do It Before January 1st
- New York Mets Are Pitched a Discrimination Lawsuit
- “Oops I Did It Again”—Another Local Politician Sued for Sexual Harassment
- “Karma” Will Pay the Bills
- A Lawsuit to Remember—Notebook Author Sued for Discrimination
- Failure to Hire—Boy Scouts of America’s Hiring Gaff
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September
- The Pitfalls of Using Social Media to Hire—or Not Hire—Prospective Employees
- Verizon Wireless and Directv Named in Mass Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
- Virgin Airways Owner, Sir Richard Branson: Best Boss Ever
- The Most Highly Pursued Claims in Employment Law
- Behind the Kitchen Doors at PF Chang’s
- Canon INC. Settles Unlawful Background Check Lawsuit
- Another Celebrity Chef Cooks up a Lawsuit
- Huffington Post Editor Investigated for Sexual Harassment
- Your Right to Lactate
- Raiderettes-1; Raiders-0
- Tell-All Tale from a Former American Apparel Employee
- Your Private Information Is Just That: Private
- Pizza Hut and Pizza Legal Heaven
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August
- Subway Created Fake Employees to Avoid Paying Overtime Rates
- Apologizing for Harassment with More Harassment
- Paid out for Retirement
- Quarrelling Lovers’ Unstable Behavior Not Enough to Warrant Employer’s Demand for Medical Examination
- When Ignoring Sexual Harassment Turns Deadly
- Employees Launch Lawsuits Against Spacex
- Sex and Science
- Mid Range Jobs Still Low
- The Bar Exam Crisis Continued…
- The Irony of an Employment Website Violating Labor Law
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July
- Employer Background Checks – Here’s How
- Photographer Peter Beard Sued by His Muse
- Purloined Potty Privacy
- Beverly Hills 90210…Is Getting Sued
- Yahoo Exec Fires Back and Counter Sues Former Employee
- Millennials Don’t Want to Believe Women Are Still Making Less
- Female Yahoo Executive Sued for Sexual Harassment…by Another Woman
- California Supreme Court Votes in Favor of Undocumented Workers’ Rights
- More Groups Are Winning the $15 Minimum Wage
- Hey Walgreens, Was $1.39 Worth It?
- Extending FMLA to Same Sex Partners
- What Is Class Certification?
- June
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May
- The United States of America Home of the Free, Brave, and Overworked
- Shopkeeper’s Defense Though Lawful, Violates Company Policy
- Santa Ana City Councilman Charged with Sexual Assault
- Beauty Doesn’t Come Cheap
- Top 10 Legal Lessons from the Movies
- A National Analysis of Minimum Wage
- Whose Turn Is It? New York Jets, You’re Up!
- A Discussion on Background Checks and La’s Push to Use Them
- Did You Know About Paid Voter Time?
- Title VII and Immunizations When Is It Religious Discrimination?
- “Sex and the City”-Celebrity Sued for Attacking Bartender
- Employees Sue the Most in…
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April
- Hilton in Hot Water—Class Action Lawsuit for Overtime
- Is the U.S. Department of Justice Racist?
- Clippers, Controversy, and Callous Remarks
- The EEOC Thaws the Freeze
- Pier 1 Poised to Be Sued
- “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Star Sued for Sexual Harassment
- What Do True Blood, Game of Thrones, and the Tudors Have in Common?
- Don’t Take Me out to the Ball Game—I Just Had a Kid!
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March
- I’m hurt or sick and I have to miss work – am I protected?
- Alphabet Soup When You’re Sick
- 30 Minutes or Less Cost More
- Oh, We’re Facebook Friends? Guess I Can’t Take Your Case
- California Unemployment Rate Dropped in February
- Landmark Hobby Lobby Case Could Establish For-Profit Religious Boundaries
- “That Was Easy.” or so They Thought – Staples Liable for Age Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment Need Not Be Motivated by Desire, Further Explored
- “Hey Lacy T. and Sarah G. You Can’t Sue Us!”—the Raiders Respond to Lawsuit
- Mcdonald’s: Not-So-Lovin’-It
- Overtime Violations: More Common Than You Think!
- What Not to Do in a Deposition - Lessons by Bieber
- Los Angeles Councilman Accused of Sexual Harassment
- Spring Forward: How Daylight Savings Affects Paying Employees
- So Who’s Paying for the Uniform?
- FMLA Leave 2014 Remix
- Amazon.Com Not so Prime
- Differences Between Employees and Independent Contractors
- February
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December
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2013
- November
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June
- “Cultural Differences” Don’t Justify Racial Discrimination
- Victory for California Employees
- Employee’s Appeal Reversed on Sexual Harassment Claim
- Pregnant Employees May Be Entitled to Additional Leave
- Yahoo Eliminates Telecommuting – Violation of ADA?
- The Price Is Wrong
- $1.5m Sexual Harassment Win for Contract Phlebotomist
- Abercrombie & Fitch Under Fire Again for Religious Discrimination
- Kellogg Pays Employees $550,000
- April
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