family status

Family Status Discrimination and Equal Pay Laws

June 22, 2008 16:28

This post is part of our ongoing series dealing with “family status” discrimination.  Family status claims implicate several employment laws, depending on the facts of a given case.  For example, the federal Equal Pay Act (”EPA”) and also California law mandate “equal p...

Assumption Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination

May 18, 2008 00:16

This is our second post in our series on “family status” discrimination. The last post dealt with examples of “moral stereotyping” where an employer’s belief on what women should do motivates their discrimination. This post deals with what I call...

Moral Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination

May 03, 2008 22:01

This is my second post in our multi-part series on “family status” discrimination, which is becoming more and more common under both federal and state law. There are many ways family status discrimination can happen in the workplace, some of which are very subtle and difficult to prove....

Family Status Discrimination Series

April 16, 2008 14:45

One employment law claim that has been quickly becoming more popular these days is “family status discrimination”. That is, discriminating against someone based on their familial obligations or simply because they have a family in the first place. Widespread use of this claim is so...

Schwarzenegger “Terminates” Employee Rights (Part 3)-Family Values?

November 05, 2007 14:43

This is our final installment in a series dealing with employee rights laws that California’s legislature passed in 2007, but which Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed last month before they could take effect. SB 836 Senate Bill 836 was heralded nationwide as the first law prohibiting employer...