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Marko Mrkonich Breaks Down for Time Magazine How "Microinequities" Have Become the Basis for Discrimination Claims Against Employers

  • Time Magazine

"Why Your Boss May Start Sweating The Small Stuff," Time Magazine

Littler's Marko Mrkonich is quoted in this Time Magazine story on how the little slights, termed "microinequities," can influence the workplace. The article details the need in a tight labor market for employers to be even more mindful of what they say and how they act toward employees. Mrkonich offers the insight that microinequities, once used to buttress discrimination claims, are now becoming the basis for those claims. "People are saying, 'I just feel really unwelcome,'" he says.

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