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Employers are well aware that they need to pay time-and-a-half when employees work extra time that goes beyond 40 hours in the week. For instance, if an employee makes $30 an hour as their standard wage, they would need to make $45 an hour for each hour of overtime...
Employees count on their income to be able to make ends meet and cover life’s necessities. When a person is terminated from their job, they may feel as though they weren’t treated properly. For the most part, employers are allowed to fire employees. There are a few...
If you walk in for an interview while you are clearly pregnant and the employer refuses to hire you on those grounds, you know right away that this is a violation of your rights. Pregnancy discrimination is illegal, and employers cannot refuse to hire workers because...
Some of the findings of a recent study from the law school at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) regarding LGBT discrimination in Pennsylvania likely will come as no surprise to the state’s roughly half a million LGBT adults and young people. Among these...
The workplace isn’t always an ethical place, but it should be. When you’re doing a job, you should get the credit for all of the positive things that happen as a result. Your work ethic and experience matter. Unfortunately, it is common for people to take credit for...
Employers are required to accommodate employees with special needs related to illness, disability and other conditions. Employers must accommodate such employees by ensuring the workplace is more accessible and suitable to them. An employer's failure to do so may...
If you believe something wrong is happening at your workplace, you may want to notify your employer's human resource department or an outside party about it. Your employer is not supposed to take any adverse action against you for making the report. Otherwise, it may...
Employees in Pennsylvania workplaces represent a diversity of religious faiths. Many have sacred holidays that aren’t included in most businesses’ holiday schedules -- unlike Christmas. So if you need to take a day off to attend a religious service or simply spend...
Workers shouldn’t ever have to deal with harassment or discrimination based on their gender or the perception of their gender. Unfortunately, there are many times when employers don’t take steps to protect people from those types of behaviors. There are many ways...
Whether you are fresh out of college or have decades of industry experience, as an ambitious professional woman, you know your worth, and you have no trouble chasing after your goals. Unfortunately, you may sometimes feel like the company where you work doesn't really...
