Workers in Missouri have relatively little job security. A company struggling financially might lay off numerous workers all at once. Businesses trying to streamline their operations or expand certain departments may target specific employees for termination with...
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What are the potential remedies for a discrimination case?
When it comes to employment, discrimination is an unfortunate reality that many individuals face. Thankfully, the legal system is designed to rectify such injustices and provide remedies to victims of discrimination. When discrimination is identified, the law's...
What employees should know about the Family and Medical Leave Act
There are numerous federal laws that protect employees in the United States. These statutes give workers a right to appropriate pay and overtime wages. They also protect workers from retaliation and other misconduct that might affect their employment. When federal...
What workers should know about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act?
Federal laws help to establish protections for workers in part so that they don't have to experience unfair discrimination related to protected characteristics such as religion, race, medical condition or sex. For example, per federal law, women should theoretically...
Another big corporation loses an employer retaliation case
Protection from discrimination and harassment would be effectively useless without protection from employer retaliation. After all, workers have every reason to fear that their employers will punish them if they report misconduct from a superior or harassment from the...
What is the current status of pay transparency?
What a company pays one of its workers varies. Someone's experience and education often has a major impact on how much an employer offers them for a specific role. A company may even offer a pay range that allows for tens of thousands of dollars in difference in...
The countless consequences of cyberbullying at work
The continuing and ever-growing sophistication of cutting-edge technology has made communication easier. Workplaces once accustomed to paper memos can now collaborate via instant messages and online meetings, and one-on-one cyber interactions. However, those benefits...
Missouri firm will pay $1.9 million for racial discrimination
Four years of discriminating and sidestepping prospective Black and Asian employees has come at a major cost to a Missouri-based company. In August, Cerner Corp. – a North Kansas City medical information technology company – agreed to a settlement worth nearly $1.9...
School district will pay more than $1 million to former employee
A five-year legal battle stemming from accusations of workplace sexual discrimination and retaliation has finally ended with a school district agreeing to pay more than $1 million to one of its former employees. In settlement made in August between the Jefferson City...
How to file a race discrimination case with the EEOC
If you have experienced racial discrimination at work or when applying for a job, you deserve compensation under Missouri and federal law. But getting justice in this way requires you to follow a specific, multi-step process. One such step is filing a discrimination...