Elon Musk’s Stunning and Discriminatory Statements About Disabled Employees
In a stunning display of discriminatory animus, Elon Musk mocked a former Twitter employee with muscular dystrophy who required workplace accommodations. Musk claimed that the former employee used his disability as an “excuse” and questioned whether the employee’s required accommodations were a ruse to avoid performing work. According to Musk, the employee “did no actual…
New Pay Transparency Required by California Starting in 2023
On September 27, 2022, Governor Newsom signed into effect SB 1162, a critical new law requiring employers with 15 or more employees to disclose pay scale data in job postings and provide the pay data to current employees upon request. The new law will also require employers with more than 100 employees to report “for…
New Lawsuit Alleges Harvard “Willfully Ignored” Evidence of Sex Harassment
The New York Times reported today that a new federal lawsuit is accusing Harvard University of doing nothing in response to multiple complaints that one of its professors sexually harassed his graduate students and threatened them with “career-ending retaliation” to silence them and dissuade them from reporting his misconduct. According to the lawsuit (Czerwienski, Kilburn,…