Huge news in the business and legal world arrived on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 when the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted 3-2 in favor to ban non-compete agreements between businesses and their workers (“FTC Rule”). The highlights of the FTC Rule would include a...
Federal Law Update
When Do I Have To Notify My Job Of My FMLA Request?
The recent case of Sinico v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2024 WL 510521 (3rd Cir. Feb 9, 2024), provides a good example of employees needing to understand how to navigate and timely make requests for medical leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA“)....
Yes, You Can Be Fired For Saying “F*ck (Race) People”
Ashley Bush served as the head coach for the girls’ basketball team at Frederick High School. On February 5, 2020, several members of the varsity team decided to leave the team, alleging that Bush had been treating them abusively. Despite an investigation by the...
Employer’s Lies Are Called Pretext
What does pretext mean? In the context of wrongful termination or employment discrimination, pretext refers to a situation where an employer provides a false or misleading reason for terminating an employee. This reason is presented as the official justification for...
Can My Job Force A Disability Accommodation On Me?
How do you prove a failure to accommodate under the ADA? The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on their disability. Discrimination, as defined by the ADA, includes the failure to provide reasonable...
Yes, You Can Be Fired For Serious Safety Violations
Today, our employment discrimination lawyers delve further into the concept of pretext – which is the employee’s burden to show that the employer’s stated reason for termination is false or did not really motivate the employer’s decision. We do so by looking at the...
How Are Work Arbitration Agreements Enforced?
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...
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,...
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...
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...