Workplace sexual harassment can be demoralizing and humiliating. Quid pro quo harassment can make workers feel like their career development depends on compromising their personal values. Many people suffer in silence for weeks or months before they decide to take...
Employment Law
3 ways customers and clients may sexually harass workers
Workplace sexual harassment occurs in a variety of different scenarios. Sometimes, a supervisor tries to use their workplace authority for nefarious purposes. Other times, a group of coworkers may create a hostile work environment for one employee because of their...
What does employer retaliation involve?
There are many ways for businesses to violate the rights of workers. Some companies discriminate against workers with certain protected characteristics. Other companies punish employees who try to make use of their basic rights under the law. Technically, employers...
3 ways to gather evidence of workplace sexual harassment
For a worker to hold their employer accountable for sexual harassment, they have to prove what they have experienced. Often, the worst harassment occurs behind closed doors. Therefore, it can be very difficult for someone experiencing a hostile work environment or...
How the glass ceiling can affect ambitious professionals
Some people go to their jobs in the morning, accept the lowest amount of responsibility possible and collect a paycheck. They have no desire to pursue major career advancement and simply want competitive wages for the services that they provide. Other professionals...
What constitutes quid pro quo sexual harassment?
Sexual harassment can occur in any work environment. Someone working at a medical office, fast food restaurant or car dealership might have to deal with a coworker or supervisor who is consistently inappropriate. Sexual harassment generally involves more than just one...
Michigan adds 2 protected categories to state civil rights law
Last year, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the state’s law prohibiting discrimination based on sex can be assumed include both sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. The law at the heart of the case, the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, addresses...
Discrimination Against Remote Workers
Everyone should feel safe at work. However, that is not always the case. Workplace discrimination is widespread and comes in many different forms. It used to be that the most common types of discrimination were age-related or sex-related, but times have changed and...
Michigan law professor sues university for racial, sexual discrimination
Though anybody can be subjected to illegal discrimination at work, victims tend to be women and people of color. Workers who are both a racial or ethnic minority and female can experience discrimination based on both these traits. Getting fair consideration in hiring,...
Sexual harassment and orientation discrimination in a male-dominated work dynamic
No industry is safe from harassment. However, in "blue-collar" trade labor settings composed mostly of men, women and those who identify on the LGBTQ+ spectrum may find themselves on the receiving end of unwanted advances, offensive comments, and unsafe work...