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Do Public Employees Have First Amendment Free Speech Rights At Work? Yes, public employees have free speech rights under the First Amendment. But those rights are not unlimited when it comes to workplace conduct. Courts apply a balancing test: does the speech address...
No employee should ever be subjected to racial epithets or race-based slurs in the workplace. However, simply because such racial epithets or race-based slurs are uttered to or in the presence of a Black employee does not mean that the employee will win a claim for...
In the recently decided case, Dominick v. Mayorkas, 52 F.4th 992 (5th Cir. 2022), Gail Dominick sued her former employer, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for race discrimination and wrongful termination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She...