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Today, I start a trial in a race discrimination case where the employer previously testified that it was not against the company policy for white employees, including the operations manager, to say “n*gger.” When confronted with my client’s objections to the use of...
What laws protect a woman’s right to equal pay? Women’s rights to equal pay are protected under both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act (“EPA”). Under both laws, employers must pay woman workers the same as their male counterparts when...
How do I prove a race discrimination case against my employer? A claim for race discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can be established in two different ways, either through direct or indirect evidence. Race discrimination can be proved by...
What laws require employers to accommodate disabled employees? The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with a disability or serious medical condition that will all the employee to perform the...
As our employment discrimination lawyers have blogged about, complaints of discrimination and/or harassment will not likely save a bad employee from being fired. Today, we look at the recent United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit case Corkrean v. Drake...
Today, we consider the recent United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit case, Williams v. Fed. Express Corp, No. 22-2014, 2022 WL 17580657, at *1 (3d Cir. Dec. 12, 2022). Lori Williams, an African American female, had been working at FedEx since 1995, when...
Well, COVID refuses to go away. So, today, our employment discrimination lawyers review the recent United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio decision in Bibb v. Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities, No. 21-CV-2235, 2022 WL 16793334...
For today’s employment discrimination blog, our employee’s rights lawyers look at the situation that JDKD Enterprises, L.P. found itself in recently. JDKD is a McDonald’s franchisee operating in New Jersey. It fired a grill cook who has autism spectrum disorder. The...
Are there any laws that prevent my company from forcing me to work on Christmas? No, there are no federal laws that specifically preclude employers from scheduling employees to work on Christmas or Christmas Eve. Likewise, with the exception of Massachusetts and Rhode...
Today, our wage and hour lawyers review the recent case of Ocampo v. Brown & Appel, LLC, No. 21-2579-CV, 2022 WL 17684587, at *1 (2d Cir. Dec. 15, 2022), which is an unusual case out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. What makes this...