Before I go to work every morning, I engage in a ritual that my husband has never needed to. As the New York Times reports, this ritual is can make women appear confident, capable, reliable, or likable in the workplace, and can even lead to a higher salary when compared to other women. What is it? Unfortunately, it has nothing to do…
Each year, millions of hard-working employees invest billions of dollars in their employer’s 401(k) plans because they trust their employer to provide a best-of-class plan. Often, however, the employer’s endeavors are tainted by a failure of effort, competence, and/or loyalty. Employees’ hard-earned retirement savings are exposed unnecessarily to wasted fees and poor investment performance. But employees need not suffer in…
On February 15, 2017, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against Hidden Hawaii Tours alleging that the President of the company engaged in a pattern of sexually harassing his young employees. Unfortunately, that’s not an uncommon scenario. The difference in this case is that the victims were men. According to the EEOC lawsuit, for more than a…
For more information contact: Jamie Moss,201-493-1027; [email protected] SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 2017 – Sanford Heisler, LLP today filed a class action against Overland Solutions, Inc. (“OSI”) on behalf of its California insurance inspectors for violations of the California Labor Code. The complaint alleges that OSI, an industry leader in insurance underwriting support services, willfully misclassifies California field inspectors as independent contractors…
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate against an employee “because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” When an employer discriminates against an employee because of his or her gender, there is, therefore, no question that Title VII makes that conduct illegal. But what about in cases…