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Retaliation
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BeLabor the Point
You Fire Your HR Manager for Encouraging Employees to Sue. No Problem, right? Think Again.
Ver la versión en español aquí Imagine this. You hire an HR manager to investigate and resolve internal employee complaints. You later learn that instead of doing her job, the…
California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog
DFEH Reports Age Discrimination And Retaliation Claims On the Rise
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing issues a yearly report describing its complaint and litigation trends. Below is the Reader’s Digest™ version. The DFEH recently issued…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
WIRTW #526 (the “pumpkin” edition)
Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin spice. Pumpkin carving. Pumpkin festivals. Fall is officially the season of the pumpkin. What are you doing Sunday, October 14? I'll be enjoying the return of Fake…
Litigators at Work
Pennsylvania Jury Finds Female Professor’s Retaliation Claims Pass the Test
A federal jury has awarded a female professor lost earnings and punitive damages on two counts of employment retaliation, despite rejecting her claim of sex discrimination in a university’s distribution…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Western District denies Summary Judgment
An engineer worked for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or 23 years. Shiyan Jiang was never in any trouble until in 2014, he was assigned a new boss, Kim Wilson.…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
$20,000 Jury Verdict in Aberdeen Federal Court Employment Retaliation Case
On July 20, 2018 a federal court jury in Aberdeen rendered a $20,000 plaintiff verdict in Garrett v. City of Tupelo. Brandon Garrett was a detective with the Tupelo Police…
Litigators at Work
Massachusetts Jury Returns Unprecedented $28 Million Verdict for Retaliation Claim
A Suffolk County jury recently awarded a Haitian–American nurse an unprecedented $28.2 million in total damages on her claim of retaliation against Brigham & Women’s Hospital, her former employer. At…
Labor Days
The First “Me Too” Verdict in New York Should Send A Strong Message to Managers and Employers
On Friday, July 27, after a 3 week trial in Manhattan, a jury awarded $1.25 million in damages to Enrichetta Ravina, a former professor at Columbia University Business School, who…
The EPL Advisor
Agreement’s Requirement To Forego Claims Of Future Discriminatory Conduct May Constitute A Materially Adverse Action
In Lester v. O’Rourke, the United States District Court for the North District of Illinois held that Plaintiff is entitled to trial on his Title VII retaliation claim after he…
Labor Law Prof Blog
4th Circuit Public-Sector Retaliation Case
Jon Harkavy (Patterson Harkavy) sends word of Strothers v. City of Laurel, Maryland, downloadable here, a Fourth Circuit decision handed down last Friday. The case involves a Title VII retaliation claim…