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How To Know if You Have a Hostile Work Environment
If you’ve worked long enough, you’ve heard your fair share of workplace horror stories—the demeaning Miranda Priestly-esque boss, the manager who always cracks lewd jokes, the colleagues who act like schoolyard bullies. These are a...
Filing Class Action Claims for Unpaid Wages
Few things are as important to employees as their wages, the fruit of their hard labor. But what if your company has been intentionally trying to withhold pay that’s rightfully yours? In such cases, employees can file unpaid wage claim...
What You Should Do When You Are Wrongfully Terminated?
About 55% of Americans get their sense of identity from their job. So imagine how devastating it would be if you were fired from it, especially through no fault of your own and under potentially unlawful circumstances. Unfortunately, t...
Know How To Recognize Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment at Work
Under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, quid pro quo harassment is one of two forms sexual harassment in the workplace; the other type being hostile work environment harassment. It occurs when a superior requests or demands a se...
What Can You Do After Being Misclassified as an Independent Contractor?
Workers who are misclassified as independent contractors instead of employees are at a severe disadvantage. From a legal standpoint, an independent contractor is not entitled to minimum wage standards, overtime pay, unemployment benefits, o...
Here’s How To Identify and Prove Discrimination in the Workplace
Workplace discrimination is one of the most unfortunate incidents that can happen during employment. While an instinct or gut feeling is often enough for a person to know they've been on the receiving end of disparate treatment in the wo...
5 Signs That May Indicate You’re Underpaid at Work
Asking for a raise can be a difficult request to bring up to one's superiors. According to an annual national survey conducted by PayScale, a software company that gathers and analyzes compensation data, only 37 percent of US workers ask fo...
How to report cases of sexual assault from dating app partners
Modern romantic relationships and interactions have evolved significantly since the dawn of social media and mobile apps. Online dating apps and platforms have increasingly become viable means for matching up and meeting with new people who...