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Discrimination is not restricted to workplace treatment. It may become a pocketbook issue and involve your wages. Equal pay for Equal Work Act In Jan. 2021, Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act took effect. It is intended to prevent gender discrimination by...
Written complaints of discrimination or corporate misconduct can have great power. If you are going to complain to your employer about something illegal such as sex or race discrimination, safety violations or other illegal conduct, you should make your COMPLAINT IN WRITING because the writing gives evidence that helps protect you from any subsequent retaliation by your employer. You may…
Disability Discrimination Under federal and Colorado law, discrimination against employees with a qualified disability is illegal and gives rise to damages remedies. A qualified disability is one that substantially limits a life activity. Definition of Qualified Disability Expands in Recent Years In recent years, the courts have become more lenient in defining what substantially limits a life activity. Employees with…
by Braden Campbell, Senior Reporter, Law360.com Jackson National Life Insurance Company has agreed to pay $20.5 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging black female workers were underpaid, sexually harassed and called “street walkers,” the agency said Thursday. The workplace bias watchdog’s announcement comes two days after District of Colorado Judge Philip Brimmer approved a consent decree…
An article By KIRK MITCHELL published in The Denver Post February 11, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. A federal jury Wednesday awarded nearly $15 million to seven Commerce City warehouse workers who accused a trucking company of segregating workers by race, calling blacks “lazy, stupid Africans” and punishing those who complained. Six of the plaintiffs are black, many from Mali. One…