Category: Workplace Discrimination

Deployment Shouldn’t Result in Unemployment It’s not easy serving your country as a military reservist while holding down a full-time civilian job. You could get deployed for years at a time—and what will happen to your job while you’re away? USERRA is the law that ensures you’ll have a job […]

The Equal Pay Act offers protection If you suspect you’re not making as much as your male colleagues, you’re not alone. This is, sadly, far more common than you’d think in 2019. But you do have options—and you can fight back. Many women get paid less than men who are […]

What is Retaliation? Retaliation takes place when an employee engages in “protected activity” and his or her employer takes “adverse action” against the employee because of that activity. An employee engages in protected activity when he or she objects to, or opposes, unlawful conduct such as employment discrimination. For example, […]

What is a reasonable accommodation? The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. A reasonable accommodation is a modification to a disabled employee’s work environment that enables the employee to perform the “essential job functions” of his or her position. To […]

Is 50 the new 40 in age discrimination disparate-impact claims? It’s been a little more than a year since the Third Circuit decided Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works. In Karlo, a subgroup of employees age 50 or older alleged age discrimination in favor of younger employees who were age 40 […]