Perhaps it was inevitable in some ways.
It certainly wasn’t entirely unexpected. 
Age discrimination in California is on the uptick, as baby boomers continue to grow older. The older folks get, the more potential opportunity there is for employers to skirt the law.
A recent study by Princeton researchers seems to indicate that age discrimination is more prevalent than we might have otherwise believed. 
Our Costa Mesa age discrimination attorneys understand that the study authors gathered some 140 undergraduate students. The students were told this person would be their partner in a trivia contest.
The man was white, with average attractiveness, wore average clothing and was reportedly from a mid-sized city in New Jersey.
A federal trial is pending in a case of alleged disability discrimination by the nation’s highest law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigations. 
In the case of Slaby v. Holder, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a wounded U.S. Army veteran is suing the FBI for disability discrimination after it denied him status as a special agent.
According to court records, the plaintiff, Justin Slaby, had his left hand blown off by a defective grenade in 2004, during a training accident. He was subsequently outfitted with a prosthetic hand, which allowed him full function of his extremities.
A wage and hour lawsuit filed against Apple Inc. late last month in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California alleges the technology firm failed to pay workers for time they were required to spend on the job. 
Our Costa Mesa wage and hour attorneys understand that the plaintiffs in Frlekin et al v. Apple Inc. are seeking class action status against their former employer, alleging they were forced to wait in line to be searched at the end of each shift.
The goal of the searches, during which supervisors combed through hourly workers’ purses, backpacks and other personal items, was to ensure that the employees weren’t heisting an iPhone or an iPad or some other device in the course of their shift.
The sexual harassment scandal bubbling over in San Diego has become a blight on the city, as the embattled mayor is now attempting to strong-arm the city into paying his legal bills due to a failure to provide anti-sexual harassment training. 
Our Costa Mesa sexual harassment lawyers recognize that such training is required in California by all schools and government agencies and all companies with 50 or more workers.
The purpose of such training is to help prevent sexual harassment, but of course, it’s not full-proof. Supervisors do become more educated about what sexual harassment is, but a cursory training session at the beginning of one’s employment doesn’t automatically prevent future occurrences. More practically for the employer, such training serves to help protect them in future litigation. It’s a way for companies to say, “Here, see what we did to prevent this from happening from the very start.”
Judging from popular culture, you would think that Americans love workplace bullies. They garner everything from respect (“The Devil Wears Prada”) to guffaws (“The Office”).
However, when it comes to real life, our California employment lawyers know that workplace bullying is no laughing matter. Studies have shown that victims of workplace bullying suffer from psychological and even physical health problems. This negatively affects not only the worker, but workplace morality and productivity.
Bullying at work can be generally identified as involving:
Of the $110 million paid out by the city of Los Angeles for its police department’s alleged wrongdoings over the last six years, roughly a third of that was for employment-related litigation. 
Our Costa Mesa employment attorneys understand those cases primarily involved allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination and retaliation.
The employment litigation audit, conducted by the inspector general of the police commission, found that between the summer of 2006 and the summer of 2012, was conducted for the purposes of determining whether the agency had complied with the mayor’s earlier directive for minimizing litigation risks.
A woman has filed a labor lawsuit stating that her employer wrongfully fired her rather than make reasonable accommodations for her doctor-verified illness.
Our Costa Mesa employment lawyers know that this case centers on a federal law known as the Family and Medical Leave Act. The law has strict applications, but it is intended to protect the jobs of those who need leave for specified medical emergencies pertaining to either the employee or the employee’s family.
Workers who are approved of FMLA are entitled to a total of 12 work weeks’ worth of leave over the course of one year under the following conditions:
A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of California workers employed at a popular, nationwide burger chain, accused of break and overtime violations.
This suit joins previous litigation filed on behalf of current and former employees of a Mexican fast food chain.
Our Costa Mesa overtime attorneys know that chain operations, particularly those that employ low-wage, low-skill workers, tend to be prone to this type of violation because they believe they can get away with it.
A number of recent employment lawsuits filed throughout the country have stemmed from alleged religious discrimination, ranging from failure to grant certain accommodations to outright harassment and hate crimes. 
Our Costa Mesa religious discrimination attorneys know that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is very clear in stipulating that such actions are not to be tolerated under the law. The law refers to a prohibition on any discrimination with regard to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, lay-offs, promotions, benefits, training or any other condition of employment.
Harassment of a person based on his or her religion is also illegal, the same way sexual harassment is barred.
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