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What Are The Protected Activities to Workplace Retaliation?

Retaliation

Workplace Retaliation and Protected Activities What are the protected activities to workplace retaliation? Many employees who are either discriminated against in the workplace, face unsafe working conditions, or work for wages that are too low compared to others in their…

What is a Discrimination Comparator in the Workplace?

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What is a discrimination comparator in the workplace? Often, workers may suspect discrimination in the workplace but may be uncertain how to prove whether it is happening to them. The most common situation in which discrimination goes unnoticed is in…

What Does ERISA Require in a Severance Package?

Severance Agreement

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), also colloquially known as the Employee Benefits Security Act, is a federal law that helps regulate employee-provided pension plans. While ERISA does not require employers to provide pension plans, ERISA regulates pension plans…

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What is ERISA?

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Most employees work all of their adult lives attempting to save for retirement. Some are wildly successful in putting away vast sums of money to coast through retirement. Others barely break even toward the end of their lives. In planning…

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What Disability Discrimination Laws Protect Me?

Disability Discrimination

Disability Discrimination Laws like the ADA Protect Disabled Workers The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) recently held its 28th anniversary. However, despite the great progress that has been made in reducing discrimination against those who have disabilities, disability discrimination still…

What is Indirect Disability Discrimination?

Disability Discrimination

Many people who suffer from disabilities can lead fully-functioning and fulfilling lives given the right amount of effort and a small amount of assistance. Often, particularly active persons with disabilities are pejoratively described as “handi-capable” as though the fact those…

What Laws Protect Me From Gender Discrimination?

Gender Discrimination

What laws protect me from gender discrimination? While many in the United States agree with the ideal of equality of the sexes, that equality does not always manifest in practice. Unfortunately, women are often viewed as weaker, less reliable, and…

What is the Equal Pay Act?

Gender Discrimination

Many people are familiar with the often-quoted statistic that women earn 80 cents for every 1 dollar earned by a man for performing the exact same work. But if you suspect equal pay discrimination, how can you pursue that matter…

What Laws Protect Me From Pregnancy Discrimination?

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The Pregnancy Discrimination Act has a set of laws that help protect people from pregnancy discrimination. Pregnancy discrimination occurs when an employer illegally fires, demotes, or takes some other adverse employment action against an employee or job applicant because of…

What Laws Protect me From Racial Discrimination?

Racial Discrimination

What laws protect me from racial discrimination? Despite major gains made during the civil rights movement racism does still exist in the United States. Often, racism is passive and implicit, and therefore unnoticeable. In other cases it is loud and…

What are Pregnancy Discrimination Laws?

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What are pregnancy discrimination laws? Discovering a pregnancy can be a moment of joy for both male and female future parents, but it can also be a moment of dread or uncertainty for one’s future career. It is no secret…

What is Discrimination in The Workplace?

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Many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of what discrimination in the workplace means. The word “discrimination” generally means treating someone differently than someone else; however, the legal definition of discrimination is much narrower than the general, everyday meaning of discrimination.…

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What Are The Protected Activities to Workplace Retaliation?

What is a Discrimination Comparator in the Workplace?

What Does ERISA Require in a Severance Package?

What is ERISA?

What Disability Discrimination Laws Protect Me?

What is Indirect Disability Discrimination?

What Laws Protect Me From Gender Discrimination?

What is the Equal Pay Act?

What Laws Protect Me From Pregnancy Discrimination?

What Laws Protect me From Racial Discrimination?

What are Pregnancy Discrimination Laws?

What is Discrimination in The Workplace?

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