Your workplace should be a safe and comfortable environment, a place in which you thrive. When harassment occurs, your job becomes a thing you dread. Harassment not only results in a lack of trust and a loss of productivity, it deeply affects your personal...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has shown its intent to enforce two of its priorities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those are company policies of 'leave limits" and full recovery policies. Some of the companies that have been targeted have a...
Suffering an injury at your job can be angering and debilitating. A workplace injury affects your daily life in terms of your health and finances. The aftermath of an occupational accident is even worse when the insurance company denies your request for compensation....
Media professionals in Florida and across the United States are more likely to be subject to unwanted sexual advances at work than in other sectors. According to the results of research conducted by the Center for Talent Innovation, 41 percent of women who work in...
Awareness about discrimination in the workplace is ever increasing. Workers are speaking out more about the unfair treatment they receive based on a protected class, such as gender, race, religion or disability. Society tends to accept or understand these cases best...
Boca Raton workers facing sexual harassment on the job may wonder what drives their employers to engage in or permit this type of threatening or hostile conduct. Some theories hold that powerful men are prone to harass their female subordinates because they feel...
The #MeToo movement began with a series of sexual harassment allegations in the film industry, but it didn't stop there. Employees throughout Florida and the rest of the country are now voicing their concerns about harassment in the workplace. In the wake of these...
"Blowing the whistle" on workplace behaviors such as illegal investments or falsifying earnings can be an intimidating undertaking. In fact, there may be large numbers of potential whistleblowers spread across many industries, but only a few will shine light onto...
While there is a greater emphasis on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace, harassment training programs are still likely to fail. There are six key reasons why Florida companies and others may miss the mark when it comes to educating their workers about this...
The #MeToo movement has thrown a spotlight on workplace sexual harassment, an all-too-common experience for many women on the job in Florida. The news stories about high-profile celebrities, politicians and others involved in harassing their co-workers, assistants and...
