by Girish Anand | Dec 5, 2019 | EEOC, harassment, retaliation
This from the National Law Review website (sounds pretty bizarre): Austin Melton, a manager at a San Jose Chipotle store who was 22 years old at the time, was forced to endure pervasive verbal and physical harassment by his female supervisor. His supervisor...
by Girish Anand | Jul 29, 2019 | Discrimination, harassment
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, more and more individuals are seeking redress anonymously, asking for court permission to file their cases with pseudonyms — John and Jane Does. According to research by Bloomberg Law, there were 52 anonymous harassment and...
by Girish Anand | Feb 22, 2019 | harassment
Following 2018’s decision to end forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims, Google (aka Alphabet) announced Thursday that it would end forced arbitration for discrimination as well on March 21. The change applies to all Google employees as well as temps...
by Girish Anand | Nov 8, 2018 | harassment, sexual harassment
Google employees worldwide — some 20,000 of them — staged a walkout this past Thursday over what they saw as a lack of fairness and transparency in dealing with issues of sexual harassment, and now Google has responded. CEO Sundar Pichai today sent a memo...
by Girish Anand | Nov 1, 2018 | harassment
Stay on guard at your worksite: Watch our video on Workplace Harassment Investigations. At 11 a.m. today local time, hundreds Google employees worldwide will stage a walkout over revelations in a New York Times article detailing hush-hush, non-transparent treatment of...