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A recent U.S. District Court decision in Gillis v. Wal-Mart highlights the question of whether an employee can bring a claim against his or her employer for hostile work environment when the underlying conduct that serves as the basis for the claim occurred outside of...
It should be common sense that employers, supervisors, and co-workers should not be able to use the “N-Word” while at work without some consequences being attached, but, as employment attorneys, it is the job of the members of Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm to...
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Ohio R.C. § 4112.02(A) it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate based on the sex of the applicant for hiring or promotion. As the United States Supreme Court held in Hunt v. Cromartie, “outright admissions of...
As an employment attorney, I often field questions from individuals regarding what their employers can legally require, once being put on notice of an employee’s disability. Many individuals wonder if their employers are allowed to obtain copies of their medical...
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal law that permits employees to take job-protected, unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. According to the U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division, to be eligible for FMLA leave, an employee...
The 2010 federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), and mandates that employers of 50 or more to provide an unpaid break as well as a private area to express or pump the milk. It also prevents discrimination or...
The United States District Court for the Western District of New York recently underwent a three week racial discrimination and retaliation trial in the matter of Elijah Turley v. ISG Tackawanna, LLC, et al., and the jury returned a verdict of some $23.5 million...
On April 29, 2013, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a decision in Mariotti v. Mariotti Building Products, Inc. which concludes that a company can discriminate against its employees based on their religion, in certain circumstances. The plaintiff in the...
Although this conduct occurred on an egg farm, this is not a story about chickens. It is a story about pigs. National Food Corporation, a major supplier of eggs to the Pacific Northwestern and Midwestern United States and East Asia. It owned several isolated egg farms...
To help sort out the well-qualified job applicants from the not-so well-qualified applicants, many employers now require applicants to submit a list of employment references with their application materials. As the employment attorneys at Spitz, The Employee’s Law...