Protecting Your Rights in the Workplace
In the News
- “Kaiser Clinicians Say Kaiser’s Mental Health Care Is Awful” (December 18, 2018) Mother Jones
- “Will your therapist go on strike? 4,000 mental health workers protest Kaiser Permanente” (December 7, 2018) USA Today
- “PG&E Ordered to pay ex-employee over safety, racial issues” (July 23, 2018) Bay Area News Group
- “Former Napa County Prosecutor Wins $570K Verdict in Discrimination Suit” (March 2, 2018) The Recorder
- “Napa Jury Finds Napa District Attorney’s Office Retaliated Against & Fired Deputy District Attorney Jose Rossi for Requesting Reasonable Accommodation for his Disabilities” (February 28, 2018) Press Release
- “Former Napa County deputy DA awarded thousands in disability discrimination case” (February 28, 2018) Napa Valley Register
- “San Diego Mother Mourns While Healthcare Gaps Persist” (May 31, 2016) KQED News
- “Former Cal Poly teacher says she was denied tenure partly because she was Mormon and pregnant”
(December 4, 2015) The Tribune - “Judge Clears Path for Class Action Lawsuit against Kaiser for Violations of Mental Health Parity Act”
(September 9, 2015) Press Release - “Black BART workers find racist threats on lockers, lawyer says”,
(July 31, 2014) SF Gate - “Lineman claimed he was fired after making complaints” , (April 2014, Vol. 9, Issue 11) Verdict Search
- “Kaiser Sued Over Mental Health Care“, (Oct. 28, 2013) Daily Journal
- “Class Action lawsuit filed against Kaiser over mental health care wait times“, (Oct. 25, 2013) Vallejo Times Herald
- “Class action suit filed against Kaiser over denial of timely mental health services“, (Oct. 25, 2013) San Joaquin.com, Joe Goldeen Blogs
- “Patients File Class Action Lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente for Systemic Denial of Timely Access to Mental Health Services,” (October, 2013)
- “NLRB Judge Throws Out Kaiser Elections,” Beyond Chron (July 20, 2011)
- “Former Analy Wrestler Files Sex Harass Suit,” The Press Democrat (Jan.2008)
- “As Rexam Closes, Members Win $610,000 Arbitration Ruling,” The IAM District Lodge Sparkplug (Oct./Nov. 2004)
- “Gay Ex-city Staffer Gets $160,000 Settlement,” The Oakland Tribune (July 2002)
- “Six Police Officers Are Promoted to Sergeant, ” The Oakland Tribune (Jan. 2000)(promotion of disabled officer due to lawsuit)
- “Don’t Fib About the Job When Recruiting, Some Courts Say,” Wall Street Journal (June 1999) (verdict in fraud/retaliation case)
- “$2.64 Million Awarded in Rare Verdict on Job Fraud,” San Francisco Daily Journal (March 1999) (verdict in fraud/retaliation case)
- “Woman Alleging Fraud, Misrepresentation in Job Offer Wins $2.6 Million in Damages,” Daily Labor Report (March 1999)
- “Ex-Professor Sues Over Tenure Denial,” The Recorder (April 1998)(filing of national original discrimination lawsuit)
- “Discrimination Suit Moves Forward,” Spartan Daily (Feb. 1998)
- “USS-POSCO Settles Race Bias Lawsuit,” Times Business (Nov. 1996) (settlement of race/hostile environment case)
- “Five Blacks Sue, Claim Steel Firm Harassed Them,” Contra Costa Times (Oct. 1995) (filing of race/hostile environment case)
- “Ex-worker, County, Settle Over Firing,” Contra Costa Times (1995) (settlement of pregnancy discrimination lawsuit)
- “City Lawyer Argues Against Bias Law,” The Recorder (Aug. 1993) (hearing on sexual orientation discrimination case)
- “Verdict Tracking, Haider v. Byer California,” The Recorder (Dec. 1992) (verdict in pregnancy discrimination case)
- “Lesbian Sees A Question of Honor,” Daily Journal (November 20, 1991)
- “Worker Says His Age, Not Performance, Reason For Firing,” The Peninsula Times Tribune (June 1991) (filing of age discrimination case)
- “Age Discrimination Suit Nets $1.25 Million Award,” Daily Journal (Feb. 1991) (verdict in age discrimination case)
- “Discrimination Award Record $1.25 Million,” Contra Costa Times (Feb. 1991) (verdict in age discrimination case)