Employment Law (Employee)

When you develop a disability that makes it harder for you to do your job, it’s not easy to ask your employer for accommodations. However, it is your right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Getting your employer to actually give you those...

Being fired without warning is certainly very jarring. It could be as simple as waking up in the morning and discovering that you no longer have access to your company email account. Or, if you work in an office, you could be called in to see your boss and informed...

When thinking about workplace discrimination, we often think of this as harassment and other discriminatory conduct that occurs on the job. While this is one type of discrimination, and it can have an extremely negative impact on the victim, there are other ways that...

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, prides itself on being a welcoming town. People of all backgrounds have made this location their home and also where they work. Usually, individuals get along both in public and in the working environment. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the...

People often assume that sexual harassment is about lust or attraction. One person is attracted to a co-worker, and the way that they express this becomes harassment. A boss makes comments about his female worker's appearance, for instance, or a co-worker repeatedly...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires an employer with more than 15 employees to provide reasonable accommodation to employees with a temporary or permanent disability. A reasonable accommodation is meant to ensure that disabled employees enjoy similar...

In recent years, a growing number of states have enacted “Crown Act” laws, which prohibit employers, schools and other institutions from discriminating against Black people for having natural hair or for wearing their hair in styles that are associated with Black...

Sexual harassment can make going to work a miserable experience. When people that you work with make jokes at your expense, create a hostile work environment or talk in ways that make you very uncomfortable, doing your job will become much more stressful than it needs...

For the average employee, much of their week is spent in the working environment. While no workplace is completely free from stressful situations, it is important that they are free from discrimination, hostility and harassment.  Being subjected to bullying behavior...

When you read harassment statistics -- such as counts of workers who have experienced sexual harassment on the job -- you can be sure that the stats themselves are deceptive. They do not paint the true picture. The issue is that many harassment cases are never...