Despite significant progress and changes in wage equality there still remains a persistent and identifiable wage gap. This wage gap occurs not only in gender but in race and ethnicity as well. On September 30th, 2020 Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB-973 which...
Marc McWilliams, Kris Jenner’s former bodyguard, is suing her over sexual harassment complaints. In the lawsuit, McWilliams has also named the security company responsible for employing him and Jenner’s daughter, Kourtney Kardashian, for allegedly violating California...
The curtain is slowly but surely being rolled back on the idyllic work environment marketed by many tech giants. Many employees are coming out of the tech industry complaining of toxic work environments, gender discrimination, racial discrimination, and retaliation...
Julia Crowley-Farenga, a former intern at SpaceX, has claimed that she was sexually harassed over a period of three summers. Crowley-Farenga, who is now a NASA engineer, alleges in her California labor lawsuit that she was retaliated against after reporting the sexual...
The ex-captain at High Desert State Prison has pleaded no contest to harassment and assault charges for inappropriately touching a female colleague while still on the job. Christopher Lewis, who used to be a captain at the Northern California prison, has been placed...
#IAmVanessaGuillén Bill Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén’s tragic death and disappearance reflect a larger problem in the military – a culture where sexual harassment and assault are swept under the rug. After the young soldier went missing in April, thousands of...
The Supreme Court delivered a blow to religious employees around the nation by holding that the “ministerial exception” under the First Amendment bars employment-discrimination claims by Catholic school teachers against their employers. In two recent cases from...
Following weeks of protests rising after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th, the pressure put on by protesters on governments to scale back the use of force by police officers on civilians and create better systems of accountability have resulted in...
Federal Law Protects LGBTQIA Workers from Discrimination This Pride Month, we set out to celebrate recent achievements in employment law and our nation’s progress in protecting LGBTQIA+ employees. At the beginning of June, half of the LGBTQ population in the US lived...
Big Law’s Seyfarth Shaw, along with a former partner of the firm, have been sued by Natalie Operstein, a linguistics professor at UCLA, for $24 million in compensatory damages and additional punitive damages. Operstein filed the suit over the firm’s investigation of...