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Jane Roe vs. Zendesk Pregnancy Harassment Complaint

“Million Dollar Baby” – Pregnant Worker Files Discrimination Lawsuit against Zendesk

Discrimination, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Family Leave, Gender Discrimination, Gender Harassment, Hostile Work Environment, Matern Law Group, Pregnancy Harassment, Retaliation, Supreme Court, Workers' Rights / By Cfelax

September 29, 2021 “We call your baby the million-dollar baby because you lost out on a million dollars of wages since you took a full maternity leave,” chided Zendesk Director Matt Ingebrigtsen on a team video conference. This was just one of many harassing comments hurled at his female subordinate after learning that she was …

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Sexual Harassment in the Remote Workplace

COVID-19, Employee Rights, Hostile Work Environment, Labor Law, Sexual Harassment, Workers' Rights / By Cfelax

The shift to remote operations over the past year and a half has reshaped work. Remote work has a great many advantages—most importantly, keeping workers and their families safe from the threat of COVID-19; but also increasing flexibility, productivity, and focus. As workers adapted to this new reality, however, problems found in the office continued …

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Sexual Harassment At Work

Employee Rights, Hostile Work Environment, Sexual Harassment / By Cfelax

The law defines sexual harassment as either unwelcome verbal, visual, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature or conduct based on someone’s sex that is severe or pervasive and that affects working conditions or creates a hostile work environment. At work, sexual harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination. It is important to understand …

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Bosses Who Hug Their Employees May Create a Hostile Work Environment

Court of Appeals, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Hostile Work Environment / By Cfelax

Hugs from your boss could indeed create a hostile work environment. In an opinion issued just last week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Zetwick v. County of Yolo revived a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Yolo County Sheriff by holding that the U.S. District Court improperly dismissed a …

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