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“Vague and conclusory” allegations are not enough to pursue claims of discrimination in court.
Discrimination claims are not easy to prove. But, it doesn’t take much for a plaintiff to at least allege in her complaint that her former employer discriminated against her.
Except when all you plead are “vague and conclusory” allegations.
Did you know that companies can sue for race discrimination too? (And potentially win.)
I’ve been practicing law for over 20 years, and I must concede that I did not know this.
Here’s how it works. Continue reading
An employee couldn’t show that ending her temporary position was discriminatory. I wonder why…
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
Hold that thought while I tell you about someone who probably wouldn’t believe me. Continue reading
In some places, federal antidiscrimination laws are much broader than you may realize
Last night, I read about a black female educator and school administrator who claimed that her employer agreed to pay for her to attend a training session but later reneged, instead offering to pay for her to attend in two years. So, she paid for it herself.
And then she sued her employer. Continue reading
Did you know that a bird — a macaw, specifically — can create a hostile work environment?
Last year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a long-term care facility claiming that certain White patients/residents repeatedly directed offensive racial slurs at black nurses and nurse assistants, including “n—-r,” “coon,” “monkey,” and “Black b—–s.” One patient repeatedly told Black employees to “go back to Africa,” followed Black employees throughout the facility to racially berate them, and physically assaulted Black employees because of their race.
Law student BLAMES ISRAEL for Hamas terrorism. Law firm promptly RESCINDS student’s JOB OFFER.
According to published reports, like this one from the Daily Mail, an Am Law 100 law firm rescinded a job offer to the president of a law school’s student bar association after learning that the student stated that Hamas’ slaughter of children in Israel was ‘necessary.’ Continue reading
Talent acquisition specialist fired after video surfaces of her xenophobic rant on a train
According to reports, a pharmaceutical company fired one of its senior talent acquisition specialists last week after she appeared in a viral video on a New Jersey Transit train calling a small group of German men “f—ing immigrants and telling them to “get the f— out of our country.”
How does a convicted drug-dealing felon get a trial on his failure-to-hire discrimination claim?
The same drug dealing felon Human Resources claimed said in his job interview that he would “do it all again” but ensure that he was not dealing with an undercover officer.