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The Employer Handbook Blog29 Absences, 120 Late Arrivals, and an HR Discrimination Claim That Punched Out Early.
Her job was tracking employee attendance. Unfortunately, someone was tracking hers, too.
Articles Posted in Retaliation
99.9% of Germs Eliminated. Also Her ADA Claims.
Keeping disinfectant in the office during the pandemic was understandable. Following coworkers around and spraying it on their clothes and sometimes in their mouths was not. Continue reading
Title VII Bans Discrimination and Retaliation, Not Stressful Offices or Difficult Bosses
The employer offered him $400,000 to stay. He still claimed that workplace stress, microaggressions, and an abrasive executive amounted to race discrimination.
A DEI Training Split Staff by Race. The Employee Who Objected Was Black.
Browse the headlines about DEI-training backlash lawsuits and they usually go one way: a white employee gets offended and sues over it. This one, initiated by the EEOC, ain’t that at all.
When a Discrimination Complaint Comes Wrapped in Profanity, Can HR Discipline the Employee?
Workplace profanity was business as usual, right up until it accompanied a complaint about racism.
Tried to Waive the Jury, Failed. Got a Jury, It Didn’t Decide the Right Thing Either.
A supervisor approved the employee’s hairstyle at her interview, then sent her home for wearing it on day one. A federal appeals court says the case over what happened next isn’t finished, for either side.
Two Judges Just Volunteered to Kill a 50-Year-Old Discrimination Standard
An employee’s attempt to end fifty years of discrimination-law precedent went nowhere on appeal. But, two of the three judges who rejected it wrote separately to say they’d take another case just to do it.
An HR Manager Reported Retaliation. Then She Became a Retaliation Case Herself.
She reported the harassment and lost her job. Her supervisor testified that the man she reported wasn’t disciplined; he got training instead.
Retaliating Against a Harasser by Sharing His Nude Photos Just Cost Her the Case.
A coworker allegedly groped her and threatened her on shift. Years later, she got fired not for reporting it, but for how she finally hit back.
When “Boys Will Be Boys” Becomes Exhibit A
A supervisor was shown a slur drawn across a face on a breakroom whiteboard and shrugged it off. A federal appeals court didn’t.