Empowering professional women through reproductive stages. Addressing work-life challenges, protections, and guidance.
What I've Been Saying for 20 Years. First About Pregnancy. Now About Menopause.
We don't yet have a Menopause Workers Fairness Act, though my team presented that legislation to Congress in the summer of 2024, modeled on the very PWFA that vindicated the argument I'd been making about pregnancy for twenty years. That federal protection is coming.
But you don't have to wait for it. The law is already there. The floor already exists.
Workplace Trauma PTSD, Depression, and Betrayal of Accomplished Women
Why Women of Color Continue to Face the Greatest Inequities in the Workplace
When a Performance Plan Isn’t About Performance: A Survival Guide for Executive Women
When a “Performance Plan” Isn’t About Performance — It’s About Power
If you’re a woman in your 40s, 50s, or 60s and you’ve just been told you’re being placed on a “Performance Improvement Plan,” take a breath. You’re not crazy, you’re not alone, and this probably isn’t about your performance.
Jack Tuckner: Leading Advocate for Pregnant Women Amid Tech Industry Layoffs Featured in Fast Company
Can your company fail to promote you because you are pregnant?
If your company has failed to promote you because you're pregnant, that's illegal, that's illegal sex discrimination, it's illegal pregnancy discrimination.
Kirby Demonstrates What Not To Do At Work
Make sure that you communicate to your company's human resources department that your cubicle neighbor is not maintaining an appropriate sociological distance from you.
What is an Arrest and Criminal Conviction History Discrimination?
New York State and New York City's human rights laws prohibit discrimination based on arrest history or criminal conviction history. And there's only two narrow exceptions to this prohibition.
Are You a Victim of Age Discrimination?
If you feel you're being managed out, treated differently, victimized because of your age, you may be a victim of age discrimination and before you're fired, it's best to take action.
How to Obtain Severance?
If you're being discriminated against, it may lead to a severance package since your company is not allowed to treat you worse because of protected civil rights complaint
Do You Have a Valid Claim for Wrongful Discharge?
Do you have a valid claim for wrongful discharge? Well, ask yourself these three questions for a start.
Am I Entitled to Severance When I'm Terminated From My Job?
There's no law requiring a company to pay you severance anywhere in the United States.
Your Divorce at Work: To Share or Not to Share?
The main reason to notify your employer about your divorce is to let them know how it might affect you personally and thus affect your work.
How Real is Racism at the Workplace?
If you’re experiencing discrimination in the workplace, unequal pay due to your race and color, hostility due to your race, color or culture, failure to promote due to race, color, or culture, it's illegal.
Is it illegal to have my baby bump belly touched by coworkers?
There's really no reason to be touching anyone's baby bump in the workplace. And if it continues after you've made it clear that this is unacceptable to you, it is sex discrimination, verging on sexual harassment, so that you should complain to your company, or at least put these concerns in writing so that your company can then put a stop to it.
How should New York employees handle pay disparity issues at work?
Pay disparity or unequal pay is based on any protected status, such as race, color, creed, age, gender, gender identity, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, etc. All of the protected statuses under the New York Human Rights laws are covered by the unequal pay law.
How are damages determined in a sexual harassment lawsuit?
If you prevail in a sexual harassment lawsuit, you can consider four types of damages - back pay, emotional distress, punitive damages, and attorney's fees.
When does flirting in the workplace cross the line into sexual harassment?
Flirting, whether it's in-person at work, or by phone, email, Zoom, or text, if it is unwelcome, unwanted, unsolicited by you, it amounts to sex discrimination. Civil rights attorney Jack Tuckner explains when flirting in the workplace cross the line into sexual harassment.
Lost your job for not getting vaccinated? You still probably won't qualify for unemployment
"No major religion's doctrine prohibits vaccinations," says Jack Tuckner, women's rights in the workplace attorney. In CNET's latest article on vaccine requirements, Tuckner has noted that medical exemptions are "a challenging uphill battle"
Can I sue for sexual harassment if I am a consultant for a company?
In New York, if you are an independent contractor or consultant for a company, you are protected from sexual harassment or any other kind of discrimination.