Over the past week, our wrongful termination and employment discrimination attorneys have blogged about the problems that arbitration agreements cause for employees and possible ways to fight your way out of them. (See Arbitration Agreements Are Bad For Employees; Am...
Employment Law
Am I Stuck With An Arbitration Agreement?
Many employees don’t even realize they signed an arbitration agreement at the beginning of their employment and are surprised when the employer attempts to use it to block a lawsuit from moving forward. Our employment discrimination lawyers recently blogged about why...
Arbitration Agreements Are Bad For Employees
Let’s start off with the undisputed truth: Arbitration is bad for employees. In March 2022, in a bipartisan effort, Congress enacted, and President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act into law that precludes employers...
Was I Constructively Discharged?
How do you prove wrongful termination? To establish a claim for wrongful termination, four elements are necessary when direct evidence is lacking: (1) the employee belonged to a protected class, (2) the employee was qualified for the job, (3) the employee was fired,...
Title VII Doesn’t Protect Against All Retaliation
In the legal arena, where reality often rivals fiction in its twists and turns, the case of Collins v. Kansas City Missouri Pub. Sch. Dist. serves as a reminder that employment discrimination law isn’t always black and white. Meet Albert Collins, a dedicated employee...
EEOC Releases Revised Anti-Harassment Guidelines for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Will the EEOC’s update to its enforcement guidance help employers address issues related to the LGBTQ+ community? Probably not, but it is a great start. Across the United States, sexual orientation and gender identity remain subjects of extensive debate and political...
After Issue 2, Ohioans Are Ready for Clam Baking
While outdoor cooking of shellfish has been legal for decades, Ohio voters are now adding to their palates a new herb. Recreational marijuana becomes legal in Ohio as of December 7, 2023. Medical marijuana has been authorized since 2016, allowing patients who have...
No Soup For You!
Corky and Lenny’s was a staple restaurant on Cleveland’s east side. The Jewish deli in Woodmere, Ohio was known for its delicious food, such as its Matzoh ball soup, and living up to its motto, “where people meet to eat.” Unfortunately, according to a recent lawsuit...
What Is Considered A Racially Hostile Work Environment?
In our last blog post, our employment discrimination lawyers discussed the egregiously racially hostile work environment was presented in Banks v. Gen. Motors, LLC, No. 21-2640, 2023 WL 5761361 (2d Cir. Sept. 7, 2023); and how the District Court Judge still through...
The Best Employment Discrimination Cases Still Have Risk
Today, we focus on hostile environment claims based on both race/color discrimination and gender discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To do so, we consider the recent case of Banks v. Gen. Motors, LLC, No. 21-2640, 2023 WL 5761361 (2d Cir....