Employment

Disability Discrimination: Anything you can do

Some employers are hesitant about hiring people with disabilities. This can be for many reasons, such as the needs that the person will have during his or her work day that would inconvenience the company (i.e. breaks to take medication, doctor’s appointments, or special wheelchair accessible offices). While it is not fair to the person [...]

Disability Discrimination: Accommodation

When someone with a disability is hired into a company, they have the right to ask for what is called “reasonable accommodation”. Reasonable accommodation is essentially the things that the person with the disability needs to do his or her job. These things can be as complicated as a wheelchair accessible elevator, and it can [...]

Sexual Orientation Discrimination: Statute of Limitations

The United States Federal government has not ruled that discrimination for sexual orientation warrants anti-discrimination laws. Therefore, it is up to the individual states to address this issue in their own governments. So far, the only state with anti-discrimination law preventing sexual orientation is California. One of the major factors about many types of discrimination [...]

Sex or Gender Discrimination: What It Is

As most of the employable people in the United States are already aware, any kind of discrimination in the workplace is illegal. Some kinds, like sexual orientation discrimination, is only prevented by state law in California and is not covered at all by Federal law; other types of discrimination, like sex or gender discrimination, is [...]

Sex or Gender Discrimination: The Equal Pay Act

According to Federal law, it is illegal to discriminate against a person based on their sex or gender. This was very important legislation during the time of women’s suffrage and the feminist movement because it was these movements that brought about legislation like the amendment to the Fair Labor Standard’s Act, the Equal Pay Act. [...]

Sex or Gender Discrimination: Stereotypes

For both women and men, it is important to be able to be yourself all the time, but most specifically in the workplace. While certain behaviors like poor language and inappropriate humor should always be left at home, a person’s personal and gender traits cannot be expected to be saved for outside the office. This [...]

Interview Tips: Stay-at-home Moms

When a former stay-at-home mom is looking to re-enter the workforce, she can be threatened by the work histories of the competition, as well as inhibited by her own inexperience in typical jobs. One of the best things for any interviewee to remember, regardless of their job experience, is confidence. For former stay-at-home moms, this [...]

Interview Tips: The Self-Employed

Those who are self-employed sometimes want to jump back into the job market and find something that will offer benefits and health insurance. This is a great step for some people, but it can also be disconcerting at first. In your interviews, make sure to focus not on your lack of traditional work experience, but [...]

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