Workplace Discrimination

Remote work has become common across Texas. Many people now work from home full-time or part-time. While working from home offers flexibility, it also raises legal questions. Some workers worry employers may mistreat them because they are not in the office. In Texas,...

As new tools emerge, your workplace may push you to learn unfamiliar systems faster than you can reasonably adapt. Uneven pressure can lead supervisors to assume things about your skills or value, quietly reinforcing age-based bias. This post explores those challenges...

Finding a job is often challenging for people with disabilities. Barriers that have nothing to do with skills can appear at every stage, from job postings to interviews and tests. Understanding these obstacles can help candidates get fair opportunities and access...

Sexual harassment significantly burdens a person's mental well-being, reaching far beyond the initial incident. These experiences, whether obvious or subtle, wear down an individual’s sense of safety and self. Understanding these effects helps us fully grasp the harm....

You should be able to go to work each day without concern for how you’ll be treated by your employer and your co-workers. Yet, if you’re like thousands of other workers in America, then there comes a point where you’re subjected to workplace harassment. And when this...

You deserve to be safe at work, free from harassment and discrimination. Yet, all too often employers fail to protect their employees, leaving their workers fearful, anxious and intimidated. When this happens, you can be put at risk of an adverse employment decision...

Although there’s been an increased focus on minimizing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace, it continues to pervade work environments in the Houston area. When you’ve been subjected to sexual harassment, you need to be prepared to act. Don’t make the...

Everyone should know that sexual harassment isn’t to be tolerated in the workplace. Yet, on a daily basis, Texans are subjected to inappropriate jokes, comments, sexual advances and sexual assault that render their workplaces dangerous. Sometimes this harassment also...

Workplace discrimination is endemic across Texas and throughout the United States. On a daily basis, workers are treated unfairly because of their status in a protected class, such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and pregnancy. If you’re one of them, then you know...

You deserve to be safe in your place of work. This means that you shouldn’t be subjected to discrimination or harassment, and when you are, your employer should step in to protect you. But when they don’t, which happens all the time in the Houston area, your career,...