Personal Injury, Employment Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation, and Wrongful Termination Lawyers in San Francisco | Oakland | Bay Area | East Bay | San Jose 

Explore www.collierlawsf.com

CELA Voice

• Fifty years after sex discrimination became illegal, the focus is still on how women behave instead of changing organizations to eliminate gender bias
  Women: “Lean in.” “Be more confident.” “Ask for a raise, but do it in a way that is ‘feminine’ so you don’t come off as demanding or unlikeable.” We’ve had a surge of self-help articles and books telling women how to navigate a biased system. But, fifty years after sex discrimination was first made illegal, ...read more
• The Educational-Entertainment Complex exposed, under fire
  By Guest Blogger:  Matthew A. Kaufman The National Labor Relations Board recently publicized the NCAA’s playbook.  For sports fans, the NLRB revealed all the things that we kind of knew (or should have known) were true, but now we know: it is all true. Here’s what happened: on March 26, the NLRB ruled that Northwestern ...read more
• Equal Pay Day and the elusive gender pay gap
  By Elizabeth Kristen April 8, 2014, is “Equal Pay Day” in the United States. On average, women earn less than men. In fact, in 2012, full-time working women earned only 77% of what men made. That means the average woman must work four additional months—until April 8—to earn the same amount of money as a ...read more
• Pillage in private: Raiders try to punt cheerleader wage claims into arbitration
  Employee and consumer advocates have been screaming for years about the harsh realities of arbitration clauses.  We’ve decried them for being secret; for being unfair; and unconscionable and unconstitutional.  Like the frog in the slowly heated pot of water, the public has remained idle in the face of an unprecedented erosion of their rights.  Traction ...re […]
• Did Apple, Google and other tech giants really steal $9 billion from their own employees?
  The luminaries of Silicon Valley are idolized like sports stars. They are adored for the revolutions they have launched and praised for the fortunes they have amassed. They are revered for their business savvy and shrewdness. But it turns out there is another darker side to the Silicon Valley success story. It was early 2005. ...read more

Legal Affairs Feed from National Public Radio (npr.org)

• Justice Dept. Opens Door To Freedom For Some Nonviolent Offenders
  The Justice Department is considering clemency for thousands of people who are incarcerated on nonviolent drug charges and who have also served at least 10 years of their sentences.
• Obama Administration Opens Review Of Its Deportation Policy
  The Obama administration is reviewing its deportation policies in an effort to conduct enforcement more humanely, according to the White House. As part of the effort, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is listening to recommendations from a range of groups.
• Under Calif. Law With Teeth, Big-Time Lawsuits Hit Small Businesses
  Some California lawyers and litigants have created a cottage industry around the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some plaintiffs file hundreds of complaints a year, collecting a living off small businesses that aren't compliant with the ADA. Small business advocates and community leaders say they focus on minority businesses because they make for easie […]
• The Curious Practice Of Bringing Immigrants Back — To Deport Them
  U.S. officers at the ports of entry are arresting undocumented immigrants as they try to leave the U.S. They're then prosecuted and sent to prison, only to be removed from the U.S. anyway. Why bother? That's a question people on all sides of the immigration debate are asking.
• Judge OKs WikiLeaker Manning's Name Change To 'Chelsea'
  The ex-U.S. Army intelligence analyst formerly known as Bradley Manning, made the request to reflect a change in gender identity.

Disclaimer