Workplace Injuries/Health & Safety

Is your workplace unsafe? Are you worried about getting hurt at work? Wondering what to do about it? Find the answers here.

Workplace Health and Safety Protections

Workplace Health and Safety - State Laws

Workplace Violence

Infectious Diseases and the Workplace

Smoking and the Workplace

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General Information About Workers' Compensation

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Workers' Compensation Benefits

What To Do If You Are Injured At Work

Filing A Workers' Compensation Claim in Your State

Retaliation: Workers' Compensation

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H&R Weekly

Topic of the Week

Sex / Gender Discrimination

Sex or gender discrimination in employment involves treating someone unfavorably because of the person’s sex, whether they are applying for a job or are a current employee. Although women have made clear they have the ability to perform with the sam

Blog of the Week

Reckoning With the Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code: How Low Taxes on Corporations and the Wealthy Impact Women’s Economic Opportunity and Security

Reckoning With The Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code, tackles some aspects of the tax code that shape corporate and individual behaviors in ways that have negative downstream effects on women and especially women of color.

Thought for the Week

"The masculine structure of the workplace — having men there for as many hours as [bosses] wanted — depends on the olden days, when men had someone at home who was taking care of all their needs. Definitions of fatherhood are changing, and definitions of motherhood are changing more quickly in our social worlds than they are in our work worlds. "

–Ann McGinley, co-director of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Workplace Law Program and author of Masculinity At Work: Employment Discrimination Through A Different Lens

List of the Week

from National Woman's Law Center

Equal Pay for Latinas

The wage gap between Latinas and white, non-Hispanic men is far larger than the wage gap between all women and all men.
Latinas nationally are typically paid just 54 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.
Latinas’ share of high-wage jobs (defined as those in the 40 highest-paying jobs) is staggeringly low, at 3.1 percent