A woman working at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC) was fired, at least in part, for being inebriated while on the job. She sued her former employers, alleging that she was an alcoholic and that her alcoholism, for which she’d received treatment, was a disability. Consequently, UTSMC had violated the Americans with [...]
Continue reading...13. March 2012
A massage therapist in Michigan filed a lawsuit against her former employers, alleging a hostile work environment and retaliation. District court judges didn’t see things her way, but what did the appeals court decide? The woman began working at a rehabilitation center in 2005. Near the beginning of 2007, she was given a “good” evaluation [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2012
A woman working as a security supervisor at a mall in Alton, IL, was fired from her job and sued her former employers for sex discrimination and retaliation. The biggest question, however, wasn’t the presence of discrimination but rather the termination itself. The plaintiff initially complained that her immediate supervisor was treating male co-workers more [...]
Continue reading...7. March 2012
A husband and wife, both working at American Greetings Corporation, filed a lawsuit against their employers after the husband was fired. They alleged race and age discrimination, as well as retaliation. Both spouses are African Americans and were in their early 50s at the time of the lawsuit. The woman had been working at the [...]
Continue reading...5. March 2012
A judge has ordered a medical staffing company to pay a former employee over 148,000 dollars to settle a pregnancy discrimination case. The suit was filed last April by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on the woman’s behalf. HCS Medical Staffing, Inc., based in Wisconsin, hired the woman as a bookkeeper, her duties [...]
Continue reading...29. February 2012
A man working for the Texas Department of Transportation alleged racial discrimination and claimed that his termination was retaliation. He took his case to court. The former employee was an engineer at the department for 13 years. He is of Asian descent and Indian national origin. He alleged disparate treatment when, after seven years of [...]
Continue reading...27. February 2012
Tyson Foods, Inc. will be paying 35,000 dollars as part of a disability discrimination settlement. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a former employee, whose epilepsy is the reason, the EEOC alleges, that he was not hired for a particular position. The company is one of the world’s [...]
Continue reading...24. February 2012
A man working at a sheriff’s department was fired for constantly sleeping on the job. He claims that his termination was in actuality a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). His case was made in front of district and appellate judges. The man was employed [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2012
A female employee was fired from her job at a L’Oreal facility in New Jersey. She filed a lawsuit against the cosmetics company, claiming that her termination was a pretext to fire her based on her age. Her case made its way to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. The woman had worked at [...]
Continue reading...17. February 2012
A female Postal Service employee had told her psychiatrist of suicidal and homicidal thoughts. The therapist, in turn, informed the woman’s supervisor, and she was eventually fired. She took the company to court. The woman, who is black, began working as a mail processing clerk in 1974. In 2005, a new maintenance manager was assigned [...]
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16. March 2012
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