Employment Law

Obese individuals suffer unusually high degrees of discrimination in some form or another. One study reported that 28 percent of severely obese men and 45 percent of severely obese women said they had experienced discrimination because of their weight. Many employers will hire a thin person over an obese applicant because of either their appearance or the fact that obesity…

Call center facilities around the country are receiving a wake-up call regarding allegations that they typically require their workers to work overtime without pay or to come to work early to perform work tasks before beginning their pay shifts. A class action suit was recently filed in Columbia, Missouri, alleging that State Farm Insurance had required its workers to come…