Understanding Your Rights at Work

Are you unsure whether the way you are being treated at work is merely unfair-or actually illegal?

Do you ever wonder whether your boss is violating your rights, but you are not sure what the law protects, what you should document, or what to do next?

Understanding Your Rights at Work gives employees a clear, practical roadmap through the workplace laws and protections that matter most. Drawing on her experience as a civil rights lawyer and investigator, Jana Lomax, J.D., explains complex legal concepts in plain English-before a workplace problem turns into a full-blown crisis.

This revised and expanded second edition will help you:

• Recognize discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and failures to accommodate
• Understand your rights involving disability, pregnancy, religion, race, sex, age, and other protected characteristics
• Tell the difference between unfair treatment and unlawful conduct
• Navigate workplace accommodations, medical leave, wages, safety concerns, privacy, and discipline
• Document incidents, preserve evidence, and build a credible timeline
• Communicate strategically with supervisors and human resources
• Identify warning signs of retaliation
• Protect important filing deadlines
• Decide when to contact a government agency, union representative, or attorney
• Understand what may happen after you file a workplace complaint

You will also receive practical checklists, sample workplace messages, evidence trackers, deadline tools, a glossary, and official resources designed to help you organize your next steps.

Clear, candid, and grounded in real investigative experience, Understanding Your Rights at Work does not promise that every unfair workplace decision is illegal-or that knowing the law guarantees a particular outcome. It gives you something just as important: a clearer understanding of what may be happening, what evidence matters, what options may be available, and how to protect yourself before making an irreversible decision.

You should not have to learn your rights while panicking.

Know what is happening. Know what to document. Know what to do next.

From the author of EEOC Secrets, Disability Law Secrets, and How to Win Your Discrimination Case.