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Retaliation
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Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Court: Employee’s Firing After Expressing Reluctance to Participate as a Witness in CHRO Hearing May Be Retaliation
For retaliation cases, an employee's active participation in another person's discrimination case has been viewed, in the past, as the threshold to be a "protected activity" under Title VII's retaliation…
California Employment Law Update
Rejected Applicant’s ADA And Title VII Claims Were Properly Dismissed
By Tony Oncidi
Nilsson v. City of Mesa, 503 F.3d 947 (9th Cir. 2007) Christine Nilsson applied for a position as a police officer with the City of Mesa, Arizona. In conjunction with her…
California Employment Law Update
Wrongful Termination And Retaliation Claims Can Proceed Against Screen Actors Guild
By Tony Oncidi
Metoyer v. Screen Actors Guild, 504 F.3d 919 (9th Cir. 2007) SAG terminated the employment of Dr. Patricia Heisser Metoyer (SAG’s national executive director of affirmative action) after PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded she…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Avoiding Retaliation Claims – How Much Time to Wait After a Claim is Filed to Take Action
Do you like tricks or treats? Depending on your perspective, you'll either find something to like or dislike about a decision just issued by the District Court of Connecticut. Judge…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
CHRO Annual Report Shows Less Discrimination Cases Being Filed
The CHRO has issued its Annual report ending for the fiscal year June 30, 2007, and made it available for public viewing. Its full of statistics that show trends in…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Long on Title VII Retaliation and Employer-Initiated Investigations
Alex Long, my new colleague at the University of Tennessee (and a blogger at Prawsblawg), has posted on SSRN his article forthcoming in the Florida Law Review, The Troublemakers Friend: …
Labor Law Prof Blog
Retaliation for Reporting Age Discrimination in Federal Employment: The Supreme Court Case of Gomez-Perez v. Potter
One of the cert grants issued last week was in the case of Gomez-Perez v. Potter, a case concerning whether the age discrimination provisions for federal employees implicitly includes anti-retaliation…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Jury Verdict in Isiah Thomas Harassment Case
The New York Times is reporting that a jury has found that Knicks coach Isiah Thomassexually harassed a former marketing executive and that Madison SquareGarden fired her in retaliation for…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Wrongful Discharge Claim For Reporting Bar Manager Rejected by Jury
A recent article by the Connecticut Law Tribune reported on the trial of two bar workers who claimed that they were terminated in retaliation for reporting a supervisor's alleged sexual…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court to Tackle Retaliation Claims Under Section 1981
The second certiorari in an employment discrimination case granted by the Court today involves the question of whether a retaliation claims exists under the race discrimination provisions under Section 1981. …