If you’re not planning on leaving your place of employment, it’s best not to go home early and tell people that you’re quitting. A former TV reporter learned this lesson the hard way when he left the station after refusing to handle an assignment and later tried to return to work. The reporter had worked [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 7, 2012
A material handler at Exide Technologies was fired for “flagrant disregard of safety rules and practices.” At the time, the employee was on medical leave for a work-related injury. The man reacted with a lawsuit, alleging retaliation and FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) violations. In 2007, the man, an eight-year employee at Exide, was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 4, 2012
Schools tend to frown on teacher-student relationships, particularly when a pregnancy is the result. But what about a co-worker who doesn’t report the relationship? That’s the reason an assistant professor claims her probationary period of employment was not extended. The woman was in the midst of a five-year probation for tenure when she worked with [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 27, 2012
A woman sued her former employer for retaliation due to her opposition of racial discrimination – discrimination aimed at another employee. The arguments in court relied mostly on the validity of the evidence presented. The woman worked as an administrative assistant at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 159 (IBEW) in Madison, WI. She [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Reputed threats, allegations and a sexually explicit photo: Just another day at the airport. A woman employed in customer service at U.S. Airways’ New Orleans Airport learned that a co-worker had posted a picture of her on his Facebook page. The picture showed the woman leaning over, exposing a portion of her underwear. She complained [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 19, 2012
A truck driver for Tyson Foods, Inc. was fired after he tested positive for drugs. He filed a lawsuit, but his failure to prove his case in court stemmed from his filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy – and what he hadn’t disclosed. Three days into his orientation at Tyson, the man was terminated after the company [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 17, 2012
A woman working as a nursing assistant in Mississippi claimed that she was criticized and harassed by co-workers for praying during her lunch breaks. She further alleged that her subsequent termination was the result of religious discrimination and retaliation for complaining of her fellow employees’ conduct. She took her argument to court. The woman was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 13, 2012
A driver working in Atlanta was suspended after two warnings and then fired due to “insufficient work” for the company’s senior employees. He claims that his termination was in response to complaints of allegedly discriminatory employment practices. So was it retaliation? The man had only been working at Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc. for a month [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 5, 2012
A woman and her former supervisor had conflicting arguments in court: the woman alleges a hostile work environment and her termination (a forced resignation, more precisely) a result of retaliation, while her supervisor cited a lackluster job performance and the employee talking to a higher up about her superior. The woman was hired as a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 4, 2012
An Indian-American woman working as an analyst was fired for her consistently poor job evaluations. She claims, however, that her termination was due to discrimination and retaliation, and she responded with a lawsuit. The woman began working in the Technology Labs division at Accenture near the end of 2007. She’d initially applied for a consultant [...]
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