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• Stop Employment Discrimination Before It Starts: How Employers Can Be More Alert For Warning Signs

  Workplace harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims can drain the time and energy of small business owners. No employer wants to deal with a contentious lawsuit. But when owners and managers don't understand their legal responsibilities,…

• Unbearable Actions That Nevertheless Don't Violate Employment Discrimination Law: How to Tell Legally Actionable Behavior Apart From Just Annoying Behavior

  Prior to filing an employment discrimination, harassment, or retaliation claim, a claimant must assemble a strong evidence-based case. Thus, it's useful to review precisely what constitutes a violation of workplace law and what's just annoying…

• Employment Discrimination Tips: 6 Red Flags That Could Indicate a Hostile Work Environment

  When it comes to employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, prevention is often the best strategy. Employees harmed by workplace age, race, or sexual discrimination have options to get compensation and stop any unfair practices. But…

• Personal Sexual Harassment Spills Over into Retaliation Case at Cascade Foods

  According to wire reports, an as of yet unidentified Latina women in her thirties has sued her former employer, Cascade Foods, for retaliation, after she refused to amend a restraining order against a coworker. According…

• Age Discrimination Decision by Supreme Court Angers Congress

  The debate over age discrimination in the workplace has reached a boiling point. According to October 6th news reports, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Tom Harkin and other leaders of the Democratic establishment have launched actions…

• Disability Discrimination Suit against Sears Settles for $6.2 Million

  According to a September 29th article in the Chicago Sun-Times, Sears Holding Corporation has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $6.2 million related to a disability discrimination case that has traversed its way…

• Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Alleged at J.P Morgan Chase

  According to a September 29th article from Reuters, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against America's second biggest bank, J.P Morgan Chase & Company, for allegedly perpetrating both sexual harassment…

• How to Handle Age Discrimination at Work - 6 Useful Tips

  According to statistics compiled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), workplace age discrimination is a growing problem. In 2007, the EEOC documented over 19,000 cases - the highest number in a dozen years. In…

• 6 Ways to Prevent or Stop Sexual Harassment at Your Workplace

  Sexual harassment is a serious problem at many American workplaces. Here are six solutions for how to deal with harassment or discrimination if and when it arises. 1. Understand what constitutes sexual harassment. Any number…

• Veteran Attorney Alleges Ages Discrimination, Sues University of Iowa

  Attorney Donald Dobkin has sued the University of Illinois for age discrimination in response to the university's decision to deny him a position on the faculty. The 56 year-old Dobkin, who's practiced law for over…