Oklahoma City Legal Issues Blog

Workplace discrimination can have a variety of impacts on your career. It could mean that you never get an interview or that you get passed over for a job, which goes to a less qualified candidate. It could mean that you get ignored for a promotion that you deserve or that they unfairly cut your pay. It could just mean that you do not get the same treatment as the other employees, even though your employer allows you to keep working there, and it is clear to you that they consider you to be less important and less valuable when compared to those other workers.

No matter what discrimination looks like, it could violate your rights. It's a rough situation to face, both practically and emotionally. It can change your career forever.

If you are like most people in Oklahoma City, you work hard to make a living. You probably work overtime to earn your paycheck and help someone else build a successful business. While you put in endless hours toiling away, your boss is probably the one who makes the majority of the money and pays you only a small percentage of it every week.

While this is normally how things work, there are cases where an employer takes liberties when it comes to paying the employees. For instance, an employer might refuse to pay overtime, ask you to work off the clock or simply not pay you the rate you originally agreed to when you were hired.

No one wants to get a serious illness. But if you are suffering from symptoms that are affecting your ability to work or enjoy everyday life, you want an answer to what might be wrong with you.

Unfortunately, an estimated 10-20% of people will receive a medical misdiagnosis when they are seen by a doctor. And misdiagnosis leads to about 10% of hospital deaths, according to the Journal of American Medical Association.

Growing up in United States, it’s said that if you work hard and give it your all, you will succeed. It’s part of the American dream, and so, too, is equality. In some dark periods of our country’s history, racial employment discrimination was overt.

Now, however, discrimination in the workplace based on race might be subtler and fly under the radar. Both state and federal laws ban racial discrimination, but the fact is it still happens in many forms today.