Disability Discrimination

New Clarification on 90-Day Statutes of Limitations Contained in EEOC Right to Sue Letters

Many employees choose to file complaints of harassment and/or discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) after being subjected to illegal employment practices in the workplace.  More often than not, and EEOC investigation results in the...

Can Isolated or Stray Comments Rise to the Level of Employment Discrimination Under Ohio Law?

As employment law attorneys, one of the situations we see a lot is that in which an employer is making offhand, isolated, and alleged discriminatory comments to an employee in the workplace. Often times, a potential new client comes to us and asks whether this...

Can an Employer Sue its Former Employee?

Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm handles a lot of lawsuits against employers who discriminate, harass, or retaliate against employees. But can an employer also file a lawsuit against one of its former employees? The answer, perhaps not surprisingly, is yes. One of the...

Federal Judge Rules that Walmart Can be Added as a Defendant in Massive Wage Theft Lawsuit Against California Warehouses

Like many other employment law attorneys, we have been anxiously awaiting Federal Judge Christina Snyder’s ruling on whether Walmart can be added as a defendant in the case of Everardo Carrillo, et al. v. Schneider Logistics, Inc., et al., which is currently pending...

Employment Discrimination Question: What Is Pretext?

In most of the cases our firm’s employment attorneys handle, the issue of pretext plays a central role.  Employees and regular people don’t use the word pretext.  It is one of those legal jargon words.  What does pretext mean?  First, in plain English: “My boss lied...

National Origin Discrimination Claims Can Be Based On Reverse Discrimination

Under Ohio Revised Code § 4112.02, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it is illegal for employer to discriminate against an employee because of the employee’s national origin or ethnic background.  But, does it protect...

Fine-Line Distinctions in Disability Discrimination Law – The Adams v. Valega’s Professional Home Cleaning Employment Law Case

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Ohio) recently came down with an interesting decision highlighting a fine-line between a lawful and unlawful termination of an employee complaining of disability discrimination for failure to provide a reasonable accommodation. In...

Severance Packages and Employees’ Rights to File a Charge of Discrimination with the EEOC.

Upon termination on an employment relationship, many employees are presented with an opportunity to receive severance packages from their former employers. As employment attorneys, we regularly encounter severance agreements in which the terminated employee has...