Sometimes, an employer illegally retaliates against an employee for exerting their legal rights or coming to the defense of another person's legal rights. This is what the judicial system in Delaware refers to as workplace retaliation. Signs of workplace retaliation...
Recognizing the signs you’re in a hostile work environment
If you work for a living in Delaware, you understandably expect to do so in a safe space. When this isn't happening, you're likely working in a hostile work environment. Working in a hostile environment can damage your mental and physical health. In some situations,...
Some examples of wrongful termination
There are many ways employees can be wrongfully terminated, which is illegal and can involve discrimination, harassment, contractual breach or retaliation. Employers in Delaware are never legally allowed to fire someone due to their gender, disability, age, race or...
What factors contribute to male workplace sexual harassment?
Sexual harassment in the workplace has been an ongoing issue for both men and women for decades. What started as a movement to assist Delaware women in seeking employment free from harassment has turned into an umbrella law to protect men as well. In fact, there are...
How long do I have to file a whistleblower complaint?
When an employer is providing an unsafe working environment for employees and those around them, it's considered a violation of OSHA rights. Delaware employees may file a claim with OSHA, which is referred to as a whistleblower complaint. As part of protecting...
Delaware’s at-will employment standard is surmountable
The at-will standard is a common Delaware employment law hurdle. Thankfully, with experience and practice, hurdles can be cleared — even legal ones. Increasingly, people slapped with wrongful terminations can and do fight back. What is at-will employment? When people...
Sexual harassment in male-dominated fields
Workers in Delaware need to know their rights when it comes to harassment on the job. Unfortunately, sexual harassment is still very common in American workplaces. Anyone can be harassed in this way, regardless of their gender identity. However, the numbers still show...
Protecting yourself after reporting sexual harassment at work
If a colleague or your supervisor sexually harassed you, you likely thought that addressing their behavior with them would put an end to it. If this course of action failed, you might have assumed that reporting them to your employer’s human resources department would...
Sexual harassment in the FBI
Agents with the FBI continue to be under fire for minimizing the effects of sexual harassment charges on some of its key personnel in Delaware and around the country. Women are still complaining that the FBI does not take their complaints seriously. The complaints...
Do men struggle with workplace sexual harassment too?
Understandably, there is a lot of focus on ensuring that women are respected and protected in the workplace from sexual harassment. However, sexual harassment toward men is also a very real issue that is often not discussed. The following includes further information...
