The protections afforded to federal workers in Florida and around the country who report fraud or other wrongdoing were strengthened when President Trump signed the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act and the Office of Special Counsel Reauthorization...
The number of Florida residents filing claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was down in fiscal year 2017 as compared to previous years. Sunshine State filings tracked national numbers that have been trending downwards since 2010 despite a slight...
Discrimination can take many forms, from racial to sexual to age-based. When people think of discrimination in the workplace, which industries come to mind? Of course, no occupations are exempt, but some are guiltier than others.Highly publicized cases can make it...
Newly hired employees in Florida likely receive information about sexual harassment during their initial training and then hear about it very little after that. A survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management identified a lack of awareness among...
Hearing loss is a problem that many workers face. Perhaps they started their job decades ago and, over the years, their ability to hear clearly has decreased. Or they started the job recently and have always had to deal with this hearing issue.Perhaps your employer...
In 2017, the #MeToo movement shed light on the prevalence of workplace sexual harassment and the underlying pattern of victims' reluctance to report the behavior. Harassment may include inappropriate attention, unwanted sexual advances and lewd comments. According to...
Florida cable viewers may be interested to learn that an African-American employee who once worked for TBS has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging racial discrimination. According to the woman, who was with the company for 13 years and was a manager in...
The past few years have shed light on several injustices toward women that had gone unnoticed or unacknowledged in the past: Movements like #MeToo and the Hollywood allegation scandals have demonstrated how much abuse happens behind the scenes. With all of this...
If you work as a waitress or server, you may think that sexual harassment simply comes with the territory - a fact of life for the position and not something you can do much about. You may feel this is even more true when it is customers, not co-workers or managers,...
Termination is the most common subject of complaint made to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to new EEOC statistics.Many of those complainants were let go for legitimate (or at least legally defensible) reasons. But sometimes the stated...
