“I stopped mentioning it,” she said. “I figured it was just something I had to push through on my own.” The exhaustion, the disrupted sleep, the trouble concentrating by afternoon: she assumed none of it was her employer’s problem to…
Some employers treat an AI-assisted screening tool as a neutral filter, a way to remove human bias from hiring decisions rather than add to it. California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA, Gov. Code § 12940(a)) doesn’t distinguish between a…
You were laid off. Meta called it a reduction in force, about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of the company, as part of a push to become an “AI-first” company. Twenty-six of those employees didn’t accept the official explanation. They filed…
A maintenance supervisor for an airline asked her whether she liked being restrained in the bedroom. She reported it. The company’s own investigation didn’t fix it. A jury believed her anyway. Two million dollars in punitive damages. Emotional distress damages…
Many employers treat a workplace investigation as a means to an end. Gather the facts, reach a conclusion, move on. As long as the conclusion is right, the thinking goes, the process doesn’t much matter. Recent litigation says otherwise. Employees…
You used marijuana on your own time, off the clock, weeks before a drug test flagged it. Now your job is on the line, and the timing does not sit right with you. This shows up often enough that California…
You heard that federal civil rights enforcement is shifting away from looking at outcomes, and toward requiring proof of intent instead. You wondered if that means a policy that happens to hurt one group more than another is now safe,…
Someone at work keeps using the wrong name or the wrong pronouns for you, even after you’ve corrected them more than once. Maybe it gets waved off as an honest mistake. Maybe you’ve started to wonder if it’s worth mentioning…
Many employees assume the legal system will uncover what really happened at work. In California employment disputes, that is not how it works. Cases are proof contests. The story is built from what was documented at the time, not from…
“My boss makes my life miserable every single day. That has to be illegal.” It might be. But in California, the answer depends on one thing most people don’t know to look for. “Hostile work environment” is a legal term…
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