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Retaliation
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The Right Coast
NLRB lawyer creates legal conflicts in bad advice about Damore retaliation claim by Jerome Woehrle
You can object to your employer s diversity policy as being discrimination but not if you point to scientific research explaining why it is not needed to remedy discrimination against…
Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Plaintiffs Face Many Pitfalls in Employment Discrimination Suits
By Jason Shinn
To be blunt, employment discrimination claims are challenging lawsuits for plaintiffs to win. A recent employment discrimination lawsuit explains this point. Trial Court and the Appeal - A tale of…
Litigators at Work
Wisconsin Jury Rejects Fired Jail Officer’s Claims of Discrimination and Retaliation
By Martin W. Aron, Blake T. Wilkie
A case involving a former jail officer shows how keeping detailed, contemporaneous records of complaints of discrimination and unfair treatment can help defend against employee claims. A federal jury in Wisconsin…
The Employer Report
EEOC FY 2017 Statistics Recap: Retaliation Claims Charge Ahead
By Michael E. Brewer, Alexis Hawley
Last week the EEOC released its charge statistics from fiscal year 2017, which ran from Oct 1, 2016 through Sept 30, 2017. Retaliation was the most common claim in FY…
The EPL Advisor
Workstation Relocation Creates Viable Claim for Retaliation
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently permitted a Title VII retaliation claim to proceed to trial based on allegations of retaliatory relocation of a worker’s…
Labor Days
Fiscal Year 2017 EEOC Statistics are Here (and So Is Retaliation!)
Last week the EEOC released its annual report breaking down charges received during the fiscal year. In fiscal year 2017, the agency received 84,254 charges and took in $398 million…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Fifth Circuit Reverses JNOV
Many federal judges avoid employment cases partly because they involve so much detail. But, it is in those details that a circumstantial case is won or lost. And, most employment…
California Employment Law Update
Los Angeles Jury Awards $17.4 Million to Sanitation Bureau Employee
By Tony Oncidi
Continuing an alarming recent pattern of multi-million dollar jury awards (see our earlier post), a Los Angeles jury panel recently awarded $17.4 million to a former employee of the Bureau…
The EPL Advisor
Refusal By Employer to Remove Letter of Reprimand from Employee’s Personnel File Creates Viable Claim for Retaliation
In Munive v. Fairfax County School Board, the Fourth Circuit recently ruled that an employer’s refusal to rescind a disciplinary notice issued after claimant filed a discrimination charge with the…
Labor & Employment Insights
The More You Know…Or Others Think You Know: Fifth Circuit Finds Decision-maker Had Knowledge to Constitute Retaliation
The Fifth Circuit has issued another opinion in the continuing saga of Jackson State University and its past athletic director, Dr. Vivian Fuller—this one about retaliation against a witness. To refresh…