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Retaliation
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Employment Discrimination Report
Retaliation Claims: Always A Concern
Recently I noted a short but informative article in The Washington Post about the rapid growth of employment retaliation claims — fifth year in a row that it has overtaken all…
Law and the Workplace
D.C. Council Passes Bill Protecting Employees Who Discuss Their Wages
Last week, the Council of the District of Columbia unanimously passed the Wage Transparency Amendment Act (the “Act”) prohibiting private employers from retaliating against employees who discuss their compensation with…
Texas Employment Lawyer
Discussing termination with Plaintiff three days after request for FMLA-qualified leave creates causal connection.
“[T]he court finds that Plaintiff has demonstrated a causal connection between her request for FMLA-qualified leave and her termination, which was discussed with her a mere three days after her…
Healthcare Workplace Update
Court Allows Retaliation Claim to Proceed Where Reason for Termination was Unclear
An EMT can proceed with his retaliation claims where he presented sufficient evidence to require a trier of fact to determine whether his former employer’s asserted reason for terminating his…
Banking, Finance and Securities
LXBN TV: Fifth Circuit – Inadvertently Outing a Whistleblower Counts as Adverse Action Under SOX
Companies can't be careful enough when it comes to potential retaliation against whistleblowers. In fact, they may be perceived as retaliating—or doing something just as bad—when they didn't even know…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
No Soup for You: can a business ban an attorney who has filed a lawsuit against it?
Jerry Seinfeld’s sitcom famously portrayed the “Soup Man” as the temperamental owner of a soup stand who would decline to serve customers that did not properly place a soup order. …
Texas Employment Lawyer
In making a prima facie case, a time lapse under four (4) months is sufficient to satisfy the causal connection requirement needed to survive Defendant’s motion for summary judgment.
“The evidence shows that the [P]laintiff submitted a DOTD grievance form on May 24, 2011 regarding alleged improper conduct by [Supervisor] and then provided testimony to the EEOC on July…
Texas Employment Lawyer
Terminating an employee within twenty-four hours of filing an initial Charge of Discrimination with the EEOC is evidence of retaliation by an employer.
“In her complaint, Plaintiff alleges that she engaged in a protected activity when she filed a charge with the EEOC, that she was terminated immediately, and that her filing of…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Sixth Circuit Rejects Environmental Whistleblower Case
Is an anti-retaliation case brought by an environmental whistleblower an environmental law case? On November 18, the Sixth Circuit (McKeague, Griffin, Polster (by designation)) issued a decision in Vander Boegh…
Proskauer Whistleblower Defense
Highlights of SEC’s 2014 Annual Report
By Lloyd B. Chinn, Harris Mufson, Noa Baddish
On November 17, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower (“OWB”) released its fourth Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program to Congress, which details information on…