Employers in California who staff transgender employees are required to allow these workers access to the restroom facilities associated with their gender identity, a newly issued guidance from the Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH) explains. Affirming previously issued federal guidelines1, the DFEH guidance also recommends that employers provide individual or unisex restrooms, whenever… Read More
Aging female job applicants may be the targets of employers’ age discrimination more often than aging male applicants, according to the findings of a recent study conducted by researchers at Tulane University and the University of California, Irvine. This study1, published in October 2015, specifically focused on evaluating employers’ responses to thousands of fake job… Read More
Fast food establishments in California, Washington and Oregon are currently the focus of a federal investigation, as regulators examine whether these employers are paying their workers the appropriate minimum wage and overtime pay. According to a recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), investigations similar to the West Coast… Read More
In 2015, federal authorities received at least 3 million complaints from consumers regarding allegedly illegal business practices, according to a recent announcement from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This represents a nearly 17 percent increase from the number of consumer complaints filed with the FTC in 2014, when roughly 2.5 million consumers filed complaints with… Read More