California Age Discrimination: Ways to Prove It and Important Steps to Take

  It is never a good thing to discriminate an employee on account of his or her age. To begin with, it is not allowed under prevailing employment laws such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) to deliberately harass and/or subject a senior employee age 40 years or older...

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Employer Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment in California Workplaces

 Employment harassment is prohibited under the California statute, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). Every form of harassment is illegal, from sexual harassment, gender harassment, and all other forms of harassment based on the protected characteristics defined by the said law. Not only do covered employers have to avoid harassment...

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10 Former Contestants Sue American Idol, Seeks $25M Each

“American Idol” has been sued a lot of times before, albeit the lawsuits it faced don’t considerably amount to around a million or so. However, entertainment website TMZ.com reported recently that the TV show is facing another lawsuit filed by 10 of its former contestants from various seasons, all of whom are African-Americans. Apparently, they are claiming that they were eliminated from the singing competition due to a racist ratings scheme, in which, according to TMZ, they were “unjustly booted because of their race.” Aside from the plaintiffs...

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