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When Going Pro Se Together Just Means Losing With Company We have preached before about the dangers of an employee handling an employment discrimination or wrongful termination case by going it alone. Apparently, two employees thought they found a loophole to avoid...
Why Employment Relationships Matter In Discrimination Cases Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is an employment discrimination law. The word employment is doing some serious work in that sentence. If you sue a defendant for Title VII discrimination, you...
Why Employment Law Doesn’t Protect You From A Jerk Boss—But Title VII Protects You From Discrimination We’ve all known that boss or manager. The one who walks into the office and everyone’s mood instantly changes. The one who criticizes your work in front...
When Race Discrimination Complaints Are Protected Affirmative action has become one of the most controversial issues in employment law for employee’s rights lawyers. Giving qualified people opportunities they have earned—whether they are Black, White, male, female, or...
Why Pro Se Employees Almost Always Lose Many employees believe that if they were wrongfully fired, faced employment discrimination at work, retaliated against by a mean boss or manager, or simply treated unfairly, they can sue their employer on their own...
Why Sexual Harassment Claims Can Lead To Real Damages Nobody should have to play defense with their own body at work. Not in a restaurant kitchen. Not while trying to prep food, run a station, keep orders moving, and earn a paycheck. Not while a coworker treats the...
What Termination Letters Can And Cannot Prove Getting fired is hard. Maybe the boss sits you down. Maybe HR hands you a letter. Maybe your badge stops working before anyone has the decency to look you in the eye. However it happens, the first question that crosses...
Despite Claims Of Gender Discrimination And Retaliation Gender Discrimination in the workplace violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Retaliation for reporting gender discrimination is illegal. Employees should be able to report employment...
Even If You Are Pregnant And Scheduled For FMLA Leave Pregnancy protects employees from pregnancy discrimination. The Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) protects eligible employees who need maternity leave. Neither one gives an employee a golden ticket to make...
Even If You Were Looking For Moonshine Let’s start with a hard truth: not every employee who gets fired has a wrongful termination or employment discrimination case. Sometimes the firing has nothing to do with race, gender, age, or disability discrimination....