You were thrilled when you got a new job offer. After all, you had spent months going through the interview process. You know that you’re qualified and it’s a great job, and the employer offered a salary that certainly fits within your requests. You planned to take...
When you have a child on the way, you need career and financial stability more than ever. After all, you will soon be financially responsible for a completely dependent young person. Unfortunately, pregnancy can be a hard time to develop your career. Despite federal...
For the first few months of pregnancy, it can be a woman's secret. Unless she has serious symptoms, no one around her may notice her changing body. However, some time in the second trimester, it will often become impossible to hide a pregnancy. Under the law, pregnant...
Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is an ongoing problem, but seldom is it as blatantly obvious as a recent situation involving a brokerage firm in Florida. In the case, a woman applied for a position with a Daytona brokerage firm. She went through multiple...
There are several federal laws in place - the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, to name a few - designed to protect workers who have to miss work because of any number of medical...
