Real Disputes Need Lawyers Who Understand The Fight
There are our work lives, and there are our private lives. Some of both might end up on our social media sites, but most people would rather not feel like their boss is peering over their shoulder to look at their Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter pages. To protect their...
Readers likely know that Colorado voters recently decided to legalize marijuana in the state. People can age 21 or over can now possess and grow small amounts of marijuana, and also purchase some from authorized stores for personal use. Prior to that, voters approved...
It is standard practice for colleges and universities in Colorado to translate important employment-related documents into employees' native language when English is not their first language. One exception to this policy are the schools at the Auraria Campus in...
A new Colorado state law will allow most victims of workplace discrimination to seek full damages in court from their employers, regardless of the size of the business. Starting in 2015, the new statute will remove the current exemption small businesses currently...
A controversial former professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder who was fired after writing an essay shortly after the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks had his appeal of his employment law lawsuit denied by the U.S. Supreme Court. Though the university maintains that...
When employees here in the state of Colorado believe that they were fired from their current position for reasons that violate company policy or which are entirely illegal, he or she may pursue a wrongful termination lawsuit to seek the justice they need and...
In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case in which nearly 1.5 million women who had worked for Wal-Mart tried to sue the company for sex discrimination in a nationwide class-action lawsuit. In that case, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the court ruled that the group of women...
A former Hooters waitress says that the restaurant fired her because of a scar on her head that was the result of a brain operation. She is accusing the national chain, which has locations in Denver, of disability discrimination because management forced her to wear a...
Colorado law prevents employers from firing or refusing to hire employees based on several discriminatory factors, such as race, gender, marital status and age. Such laws are now common across the U.S. as public policy has come down against employment discrimination...
In Colorado as in most other states, workers who are fired, demoted or otherwise mistreated due to their race, gender, age or certain other characteristics have legal protections. State law prohibits employers and supervisors from committing several forms of...