When California Businesses Fail to Provide Reasonable Accommodations

By Tod C. Gurney | Published January 20, 2017 | Posted in Discrimination, Employee Rights, FEHA | Tagged Tags: disability, employee, FEHA, workplace discrimination | Leave a comment

Ever since California passed its first law protecting the rights of workers with disabilities in 1974, it has been at the forefront of the Americans with Disabilities movement. Under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), employers are required to: Provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees who, because of their disability, are unable Read More

Wrongful Termination in California

By Melinda Garcia | Published June 21, 2016 | Posted in Business, Employment Issues, Employment Law, Labor Law | Tagged Tags: Business, employee, employer, Employment, Employment discrimination, harassment, Labor law, litigation, Sexual Discrimination, workplace discrimination, Wrongful Termination | Leave a comment

California is an “at will” state, meaning that employers have the right to hire and fire individuals at will, without any real reason or explanation (so long as the reason was not illegal, such as race, gender, etc.). If you have been fired from your job in California, the best thing you can do is Read More

Employment Matters: Religion in the Workplace

By Tod C. Gurney | Published March 1, 2016 | Posted in Discrimination, Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: Business, employee, employer, harassment, workplace discrimination | Leave a comment

The U.S. Constitution protects the right of all citizens to practice the religion of their choice and prohibits government entities from establishing a “preferred” religion. What happens when an employee’s religious beliefs are brought into the workplace? Does it matter if the employer is a private entity or a public institution? These questions are among Read More

Transgender Employee Sues Employer for Denying Female Identity

By Tod C. Gurney | Published May 29, 2015 | Posted in Discrimination, Gender Discrimination | Tagged Tags: Employment discrimination, transgender, workplace discrimination | Leave a comment

A transgender former employee of Barnes & Noble Bookstore is suing in Orange County federal court, alleging that the management at the store where she worked refused to allow her to present herself as a woman at work and fired her when she stopped complying. Victoria Ramirez, along with the Transgender Law Center, is now suing Read More

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