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Retaliation For Reporting? Know Your Employment Rights

by Brian Spitz | Jul 8, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

Retaliation is one of the most common concerns that employees have after reporting employment or harassment. Fortunately, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal for an employer to punish an employee for speaking up about race/color, gender...

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Why The Best Employment Lawyers Help Your Claims Be Heard

by Brian Spitz | Jun 26, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

It doesn’t matter how strong your facts are—if you can’t present them properly, they won’t make a difference. In employment law, your complaint is your voice. And when that voice is silenced by sloppy or unclear legal drafting, even the most outrageous employment...

HR employee holding sexual harassment complaints while office doors close around them.

HR Professionals Can Sue For Retaliation—And Muldrow Makes It Easier To Win

by Brian Spitz | May 29, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

It might sound like something out of a twisted corporate playbook, but it happens more often than you’d think: an HR professional receives complaints about sexual harassment or race/color, gender, national origin, age, or sexual orientation discrimination; reports...

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Can I Still Sue If I Missed the EEOC Right-to-Sue Email?

by Brian Spitz | May 27, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

When employees face employment discrimination, sexual harassment, or wrongful termination, the law gives them the right to fight back. But before they can file a discrimination or wrongful firing lawsuit, there is an important first step: they must first go through...

Can You Sue If Coworkers Treat You Terribly But Not Because of Race?

by Brian Spitz | May 20, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

“[A]nti-discrimination law does not make defendants liable for doing stupid or even wicked things; it makes them liable for discriminating.” Lizardo v. Denny’s, Inc., 270 F.3d 94, 104 (2d Cir. 2001). This powerful truth sets the stage for understanding a tough reality...

Clock ticking down as employee rushes to meet a legal deadline.

Can I File My Discrimination Lawsuit More Than 90 Days After I Get Right To Sue Letter?

by Brian Spitz | May 15, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

You can cook pasta, watch an epic sitcom scene, or jam out to “Free Bird” or “Purple Rain” in about 8 minutes. You can even listen to Don McLean’s “American Pie” before things go off the rails. And in 8 minutes, you can also change your future — for better or for...

Yes, You Can Be Fired for Secretly Recording, Skipping Work, Coming Late, And Interviewing Elsewhere

by Brian Spitz | May 8, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Whistleblower Claims, Wrongful Termination

In Bashaw v. Majestic Care of Whitehall, LLC, 2025 WL 700169 (6th Cir. Mar. 5, 2025), Kirstyn Bashaw, a Director of Social Services at Majestic Care, alleged she was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for being a whistleblower and reporting patient-care concerns and...

What are “Administrative Remedies” and How Do I “Exhaust” Them?

by | May 6, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination

If you are a longtime reader of this blog, you will already know that Ohio’s scheme of civil rights protections is set forth in R.C. Chapter 4112. Further, you may be aware that R.C. § 4112.02 prohibits multiple forms of discrimination based on race, color, religion,...

After-Acquired Evidence: Can What They Don’t Know Still Hurt You?

| May 1, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

Which Motive Applies? Plus, Mixed Motive, and Alternative Claims Employment law, like any field dealing with the examination of people’s actions, can be a complex field. We recently looked over: “Plus” claims, where your employer discriminates against you due to your...

Yes, You Can Be Denied a Job If You Miss the Application Deadline

by Brian Spitz | Apr 24, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

How Do You Prove Discriminatory Failure to Hire? Proving that an employer unlawfully refused to hire you based on race, gender, age, or other forms of discrimination requires following the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework as first established by the United...

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