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As an employee, it’s always a good idea to fully understand your legal rights as well as what is and isn’t allowed at work. While there are many public policies set in place to protect an employee from being discriminated against, both Kentucky & Indiana are at-will states. This means that unless an employee is […]
If you experience or report discrimination or harassment in the workplace, you are legally protected from retaliation from your employer. However, just because it is illegal does not stop someone from doing it. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about a third of discrimination charges in the workplace involve a retaliation claim. When you file […]
In October 2017, The New York Times published an article detailing film producer Harvey Weinstein’s harassment of Hollywood actresses. After that initial story broke out, the floodgates opened. Sexual harassment in the workplace became a hot button topic all over the world, sparking discussions and think pieces galore. But it’s not just sexual harassment– bullying […]
The United States of America does a pretty good job protecting its citizens from being wrongfully terminated. Federal law makes it illegal for an employer to fire someone they’ve hired based on certain characteristics that are protected from discrimination. Those protected characteristics include, but are not limited to: Race and skin color National origin or […]
Biomedical, clinical, and social-behavioral research is dependent on volunteers. These volunteers a.k.a. “human subjects” authorize their bodies to be used in order to discover new treatments, find cures to diseases, and develop a stronger understanding of the genetic make-up of human beings. These volunteers are beneficial to the scientific community as they help scientists and […]
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines pregnancy discrimination as the act of “treating a woman (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of pregnancy, childbirth or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth.” The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) was created in 1978 to protect women from being discriminated against in any aspect of […]
In 1967 the U.S. Congress created the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to protect persons 40 years and older in the workplace. The main goal of this law is to give the same personal rights and freedoms toevery employed individual, regardless of age. As attorneys defending victims of workplace discrimination practices in Kentucky and Indiana, […]
In May 2015 hundreds of people in Eastern Kentucky received suspension notices from the Social Security Administration stating that recipients would no longer receive payments for disability unless they provided new evidence of their disability. The suspension notices were sent based on allegations that an Eastern Kentucky social security attorney bribed officials into granting all […]
According to Dictionary.com, the term “discrimination” can be defined as “any unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.” In recent years, our understanding of discrimination has expanded to include a much broader definition. Discrimination happens in many different realms including work, business, […]
