Much like cancer and many other chronic health conditions, obesity is usually a lifestyle condition, a genetic condition, or some combination of these two things. Since this disability has so many pos[...]
Mitch Kline’s client, a fifteen-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was injured on duty. Her dispatcher had sent her to a high crime area, after a Federal Express driver was robbed at “[...]
Most people know workers’ compensation applies to falls and other trauma injuries sustained at work. These benefits are available for occupational diseases, as well. These conditions occur over the [...]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the federal agency in charge of employment discrimination enforcement, including sexual harassment actions. Yet many of the EEOC’s cases do not involve[...]
For many years, most of the estimated 80% of female workers who experience sexual harassment suffered in silence. The #MeToo movement has largely changed this landscape. Workplace sexual harassment ha[...]
The 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act was one of the first major additions to the landmark Civil Rights Act. The PDA expanded gender discrimination to include childbirth and related medical conditions[...]