As an employee, you face a difficult decision any time an employer offers you a severance package. Depending on the terms of the offer, accepting the offer as it is may be the best option, but it is always wise to review the offer carefully.Sometimes, an employer...
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Is your employment contract enforceable if you break it?
Working in the modern world typically means signing a lengthy, detailed contract, one which is often skewed in the favor of the employer. In many cases, employees sign on to contracts they do not fully understand because they assume the fine print is standard, or...
How to spot retaliation tactics in the workplace
Employees at all levels can suffer from retaliation in the workplace, and this retaliation can be administered for many different reasons. Retaliation is never acceptable, and legal action can be taken if the behavior can be recognized as a legitimate form of...
Here’s what you should know about a sexual harassment case
Sexual harassment has no place in the workplace, yet it still occurs in many places of business. It is against the law to harass an applicant or employee due to the person's sex or gender, among other protected categories. Sexual harassment includes verbal and...
Women can be sexual harassers, too
Especially in the era of #metoo, the image of sexual harassers is typically that of an older male boss taking advantage of a subordinate, abusing his power for sexual rewards. But men are not the only ones who engage in sexual harassment. The University of Colorado at...
How you can fight back against age discrimination
A strange phenomenon may have suddenly entered your life without you realizing it was there. One day you may have either been at your work or out looking for a new job and realized you were being discriminated against because of your age.It turns out that age...
Pregnancy discrimination still prevalent
It has been 40 years since the Pregnancy Discrimination Act amendment to Title VII established federal protection against discrimination in the workplace for pregnant women. Yet, nearly 31,000 charges of pregnancy discrimination were filed between 2010 and 2015....
Studies show increasing fear of age discrimination
While Denver is a great city for employees of all ages to find jobs in, there has been an increasing sense of uneasiness for older workers. Colorado job searchers that are over 40 continue to have no luck in landing a safe position, and many of them attribute it to...
Separation agreements protect both sides
Positions in the workplace don’t last forever. Terminations happen, and it’s not always an enjoyable conversation to have on either end. Reasons for termination could be due to downsizing, reorganization or resignation. Regardless of the reason, a separation agreement...
Is your noncompete agreement enforceable?
You signed a noncompete agreement when you started working for your current employer a few years ago. Now, you would like to switch roles, but do not see an appropriate next step within the organization. You’ve decided that you would like to work for another firm, but...