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How at-will employment can be used to disguise discrimination Can you be fired simply because your boss doesn’t like you? While the concept may seem unfair, it’s not necessarily unlawful. Many states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, are at-will employment states. That means that unless a narrow category of exceptions […]

EEOC files suit against Pennsylvania employer; Baltimore company settles for $202K  Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) created quite a stir when it announced that it was going to start treating sexual orientation discrimination the same as it does sex discrimination. (See our blog post about it here.) […]

Women secretly recorded her boss during termination meeting Despite laws like the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), every year thousands of women claim that they were fired or forced out of their jobs due to pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions. In 2015 alone, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received over 3,500 […]

Multiple women filed complaints about his aggressive and inappropriate behavior Working in close proximity to dead bodies wasn’t a problem for three former employees at McWhite’s Funeral Home. However, working in close proximity to their boss was a different story. It seems that the business owner had a hard time […]

Sometimes age discrimination can be extremely subtle, but that doesn’t make it legal “It’s time you got rid of those dinosaurs.” “We need to have younger people running the organization.” Those statements, paraphrased from a recent court case alleging age discrimination, would probably tip-off most older workers off that their […]