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It could be a car crash or cancer that negatively affects your health. Whether you suffer a head injury or have to undergo debilitating medical treatments, you may no longer be able to work. As a successful professional, your family has a standard of living that...
As a female professional, you are likely acutely aware of how hard it can be to break into the top professions in your industry. You may face mistreatment from your coworkers or dismissive attitudes from employers and prospective clients all because of your sex. Even...
When men and women do the same jobs, they should be paid equally. The same is true in athletics. Women’s and men’s teams both need to be paid fairly. Is it reasonable that a men’s team should be paid ten or 20 times more for a game compared to a women’s team? If so,...
Whether you are a manager who receives a salary low enough that you are not exempt from overtime regulations or you are an hourly worker, you should receive overtime with pay when you put in more than 40 hours a week. Unfortunately, there are some employers who do not...
Sometimes, employers take steps to reclassify workers when they think they can do so to save money. Unfortunately, sometimes those reclassifications are not legal and end up costing the employee money by classifying them incorrectly. If you have stopped receiving...
If you suffer from a disability that prevents you from working, the denial of a long-term disability (LTD) claim is a difficult setback to endure. Rest assured, powerful federal laws protect you and give you the right to appeal a denied claim. Here are three of the...
Your gender or sex has very little impact on your job performance. As a woman, you can excel in essentially all the same roles, including those usually occupied by men. Unfortunately, not all employers treat women as the competent, capable employees that they are. It...
In theory, male and female workers are supposed to earn the same amount of money when they do the same jobs. This is just one way that equality in the workplace can be achieved, and it reflects the fact that discrimination based on gender is illegal. However, the...
When you’re a woman, you may be distinctly aware that you have to ask for better pay to get it. You can’t rely on your employer to pay you equally, because the gender pay gap continues to be problematic. You know, though, that asserting your right to equitable and...
Both hourly workers and non-exempt salaried workers have the right to overtime pay under federal law. If a company requires that a worker perform more than 40 hours worth of work within a given workweek, that worker should receive at least 150% of their average weekly...
