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Remember those “what’s wrong with this picture” games that we played as children? Something like this.
Last night, I found the employment law equivalent from this recent Sixth Circuit opinion. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Retaliation
Retaliation can come in many shapes and sizes
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Let’s say that you learn that one of your employees is testifying as a witness in a discrimination case against another company in your industry. That doesn’t sit right with you. So, you tell this employee that you’ll fire him if he testifies.
Is that legal? Or is that, perhaps, retaliation? Continue reading
Three HR lessons from a supervisor’s alleged knuckle-dragging savagery.
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If at first you don’t succeed, sue, sue, and sue again.
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Today, I’m going to tell you the story of a man that has now sued the same employer four times.
It’s a bit like the Buffalo Bills of employment litigation, except the plaintiff here hasn’t suffered a fourth defeat…yet.
Is it retaliation to fire an HR employee for encouraging a co-worker to file an EEOC charge? Well…
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Can you ban your employees from wearing Nike apparel at work?
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Controversy. Continue reading
2.5 million reasons not to refer to black employees as ‘slaves’ or fire them after they complain to HR
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In terms of workplace issues, #MeToo and sexual harassment have dominated the headlines in 2018. Most recently, John Oliver covered these subjects on his show and Jon Hyman has a robust discussion going on right now on LinkedIn in which I encourage you to weigh in.
Perhaps aspirationally, Jon wonders whether the collective spotlight on #MeToo will help end the problem.
Meanwhile, in the shadows lurk some pretty sickening instances and allegations of other forms of god-awful, in-your-face, no-doubt-about-it discrimination. Continue reading
Could forcing an employee to sign a last chance agreement lead to a retaliation claim?
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The answer may shock you!
(But, it probably won’t.)
Court concludes that two co-workers’ alleged plot to murder an employee-plaintiff was not retaliation
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A probation officer in Chicago sued her employer for discrimination and retaliation. At trial, she won her retaliation claim.
While the case was on appeal, the plaintiff claimed that her boss threatened to hit her in the parking lot and, in a separate incident, coordinated with another co-worker threatened to get the plaintiff alone to cause her bodily harm.