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Retaliation
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World of Employment
Oregon Court of Appeals Rejects Wrongful Discharge Claims for Health and Safety Retaliation
This morning the Oregon Court of Appeals rejected a plaintiff's common-law wrongful discharge claim that she was terminated for reporting a health and safety violation. The Court ruled that the state and federal…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Say What? Employee Claims Court Does Not Have Jurisdiction to Hear Retaliation Claim He Brought In First Place
Just when you think you've seen it all, another case comes around to prove that theory incorrect. The latest example is Ayantola v. Board of Trustees of Technical Colleges (download…
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC Seeks Conciliation with Belmont Abbey over Denial of Oral Contraceptive Coverage and Retaliation
According to the Gaston (North Carolina) Gazette, the EEOC has issued a letter to Belmont Abbey, making a determination that the Catholic college discriminated against women by removing coverage for…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
ArticlesWilliam J. McDermott, I Dream of GINA: Understanding the Employment Provisions of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, 54 Vill. L. Rev. 91 (2009).Michael J. Zimmer, A Pro-Employee Supreme…
Labor Law Prof Blog
District Court Requires Formal Inquiry Before ERISA Section 510 Retaliation Claim
The road continues to be an uphill one for ERISA plaintiffs. Consider the recent Section 510 retaliation decision by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Edwards v. A.H. Cornell &…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Fox 61 Reporter Files Age and Gender Discrimination Claim with CHRO; Is History Repeating Itself?
Over ten years ago, former WFSB (Channel 3) news anchor Janet Peckinpaugh shook up the media market in Hartford with claims of gender and age discrimination against her former news…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
California Court of Appeal Rejects Anti-SLAPP Motion in a Retaliation and Wrongful Termination Case
The anti-SLAPP statute (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), California Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, is commonly used outside the employment litigation context to test the merits of a lawsuit…
World of Employment
Seventh Circuit Rules FLSA Doesn’t Protect Verbal Complaints
Most employment lawyers and HR professionals know that firing an employee for making a complaint about being paid properly is a recipe for disaster. This week in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain…
Train Law Blog
OSHA HAMMERS METRO NORTH WITH $300,000 IN FRSA PUNITIVE DAMAGES!
Talk about sending a message! OSHA has blown the whistle on Metro North Railroad's culture of retaliation. Big time. No longer do railroad workers have to fear reporting an injury…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Office Space: Reassignment of Office Enough to Establish Claim of Retaliation But Not Discrimination
A decision last week by the Second Circuit might seem fairly trivial. After all, the Court stamped a "summary order" in the case of Cunningham v. NY State Dept. of…