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Workplace discrimination is an enormous issue, both in California and throughout the United States. Despite the establishment of federal, state, and local entities like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the California Equal Employment Rights and Resolution Office (EER&R), and Orange County equal rights groups to investigate these matters, some individuals continue to believe their biases supersede employee rights. In fact, in the most recently completed fiscal year, the federal EEOC alone investigated 72,675 allegations of workplace discrimination. Of these, over half related to retaliation, while another substantial portion resulted from race, sex, age, or national origin – or a combination of these factors. Employment or workplace discrimination due to any of the above-listed factors is illegal according to

As American business continues to increase in both size and complexity, it is perhaps unsurprising that the number of individuals willing to take unfair advantage of others has increased as well. In fact, the federal government alone recovered over $62 billion in judgments for improper acts since 1986 when it strengthened the False Claim Act. As a result, it is essential that fair-minded individuals feel empowered to come forward to expose these wrongdoings, thus enabling the business, its stakeholders, and its clients to seek justice for fraudulent activity. Unfortunately, dishonest individuals often take drastic measures in an attempt to ensure their behavior remains hidden. Within the California workplace, this can translate into threats against employees with knowledge about fraudulent activities

While countries worldwide are contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, employees who now work from home face another less obvious yet still incredibly harmful challenge—cyberbullying and digital harassment. Most companies have transitioned to working remotely over the past several months. It would seem reasonable to assume that the frequency of workplace abuse would be reduced with this change in environment. However, not only have cyberbullying and digital harassment not decreased, but they have also gotten considerably worse. Workplace Culture Has Suffered as Employees Transition to Working From Home Recent statistics on workplace abuse support this assertion. In a study conducted to determine how the workplace has changed in response to the pandemic, participants from over 125 companies completed two sets