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The U.S. Supreme Court, in addition to its recent flurry of more widely known decisions dealing with gay rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act, issued several other lesser known decisions, including Vance v. Ball State University, a decision directly...
It shouldn’t take a gender discrimination employment lawyer to tell you it is a bad idea to make fun of a femal employee’s butt. Nonetheless, a former AutoZone, Inc. employee, Marcela Fuentes, won $860,000 in a sexual harassment suit against the company after male...
Note to employers: arguing that the staffing agency that places employees at your facility is to blame for your discriminatory conduct is not going to shield you from liability. Illini Precast found this out the hard way. Illini Precast, a manufacturer of...
Despite recent progress in the area of equal rights, pregnancy discrimination remains rampant in today’s workplace. According to a recent New York Times article, pregnancy-related discrimination charges have risen 35 percent over the last decade. The article goes on...
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) seems to be expanding its definition of “disability.” Just last month, the American Medical Association voted to re-classify obesity from a condition to a disease. As such, obesity – even perceived disability – likely...
One of the most common forms of sexual harassment that our employment attorneys encounter is “quid pro quo” harassment. Quid pro quo sexual harassment is harassment in which a supervisor coerces sexual favors from a subordinate employee in exchange for a promise of...
A lesson for managers and supervisors: if you are aware of sexual harassment in the workplace and you fail to do anything about it, you are exposing your company to a great deal of liability and exposure. Take the recent case involving The Geo Group, Inc., for...
Our wage and hour attorneys were recently asked: Are employers required to pay employees for holidays? The answer: well, it depends. Employers are not required to pay non-exempt employees for holidays. Non-exempt employees are those employees subject to the overtime...
Employment law attorneys understand that disability discrimination encompasses both real and imagined disabilities. To be sure, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of a disability, even discrimination because an employer...
The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) protects disabled individuals from all kinds of workplace discrimination. One type of discrimination that the Act protects against is an employer’s refusal to provide a reasonable accommodation. Under the ADA, an employer...