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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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Carrabba’s Italian Grill, part of OS Restaurants Services, operates primarily in the food industry with restaurants located throughout the country. The restaurant giant recently made headlines after loosing a massive sexual harassment case — showing that sexual...
Sexual harassment at the workplace is more than just unethical, it is illegal. There are laws at both the state and federal level that offer protection and allow victims to hold their employers accountable for unwelcome sexual advances within the workplace....
