A black Rastafarian, working at a company in New York, was fired from his job as a security officer. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), alleging employer retaliation, recently filed a lawsuit against the business. The man had been employed at Grand Central Partnership, Inc. (GCP), a not-for-profit developer of real estate, offices and [...]
Continue reading...4. January 2012
Drivers currently or formerly working as independent contractors at a shared-ride airport shuttle service in California filed a lawsuit to officially be considered employees. The claim was dismissed by a federal district court. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, reviewed the case and had a differing opinion. Before 2001, SuperShuttle International, Inc. classified its [...]
Continue reading...3. January 2012
A firefighter sued the Mayor and the City of Bay Village near Cleveland, OH, claiming a violation of freedom of speech, protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. A district court granted summary judgment in favor of the Mayor and the City, but an appeals court saw things differently. Back in 2008, budget [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2011
A woman working at a company in Louisiana was fired, with obesity cited as the reason. She made a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that her employers had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Though she died from conditions associated with her weight before she had her day in court, the [...]
Continue reading...28. December 2011
An appeals court upheld a district court’s decision to dismiss a case involving a claim of age bias. A man had filed a lawsuit against his former employers, alleging that he had been replaced by a younger employee. The employee had worked at International Furniture Marketing, Inc. His claim was that the reason for his [...]
Continue reading...26. December 2011
Appellate judges disagreed on a district court’s ruling in a sexual harassment case. The initial decision was in favor of the defendants, but a U.S. Court of Appeals was in support of the former employee who filed suit. A woman was hired as an executive assistant to the director of Baltimore’s Commission on Aging and [...]
Continue reading...23. December 2011
A company has agreed to pay 30,000 dollars in resolution of a disability discrimination lawsuit. G2 Secure Staff, LLC, a staffing business based in Texas, was sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in September of this year on behalf of a man who had applied for a job at the company but was [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2011
A man had sued his former employers with a claim of ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) violation. A federal district court granted summary judgment in favor of the company, but an appeals court recently reversed the decision. The man had been employed as a directional driller at Pathfinder Energy Services, Inc. for approximately two years. [...]
Continue reading...19. December 2011
Employers will try various ways to engage their workers, be it office parties or a weekend activity away from the workplace. Asking an employee to attend such an outing is one thing, but demanding that they attend strip clubs or brothels is something entirely different. And also illegal, if allegations prove true. Two former employees [...]
Continue reading...15. December 2011
A woman in Missouri was fired from her job and sued her former employers, claiming race, sex and age discrimination, as well as retaliation. The district court dismissed the case, believing the charge was not filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a timely manner, but an appeals court reversed the decision on [...]
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6. January 2012
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