As an employee, you are entitled to a safe and stress-free work environment. While most employers take every step to ensure this, it is not uncommon for an employee to be sexually harassed at work. And as you can imagine, this can be very stressful, to say the least....
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Month: January 2024
Are job postings discriminating against you?
Discrimination in hiring is illegal. If you went in for an interview and they told you that they weren’t going to hire you because of your age, your gender or the fact that you were pregnant, for example, you’d have a potential lawsuit on your hands. Employers cannot...
Retaliation doesn’t just mean getting fired
Getting fired from your job certainly could be a type of retaliation. Perhaps you think you have been victimized by wage theft or racial discrimination, for example. You file a report with human resources, and then your boss calls you into his office to tell you that...
Is asking someone out sexual harassment?
Your office does not have a policy preventing employees from dating one another. You have been thinking about asking one of your coworkers if they would like to go out for coffee or a drink after work. The two of you have a good friendship, and you want to see if they...
Microaggressions can create a hostile workplace
A hostile workplace or a hostile work environment is just an employment situation where an employee feels like they are consistently subjected to unwanted behavior. An example of this could be a female employee at a small business that has only male employees – other...