National Origin Discrimination

Meet Abraham Freud. He is a special-education teacher working for New York City Department of Education. Freud is an Orthodox Jew, who feels that his employer has been discriminating against him for a long time – in fact, too long a period of time. What is a statute...

Recently, in Crivelli v. Montgomery County Emergency Services District Number 7, No. 22-20312, 2023 WL 2823065 (5th Cir. Apr. 7, 2023), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit address the issue of proving qualification for a particular job as part of...

As with most employment discrimination legal questions, the answer is “it depends.” Indeed, it will likely come down to the particular workplace facts as opposed to the law in question. As our employment discrimination lawyers have discussed often before, under Title...

There are certain things that are universally hated: bad drivers that flip you off because nothing is their fault, a sink full of dishes, clothing that is supposed to be in your size but is cut so small just to make you feel fat, cancer, being told to calm down when...

Thomson Reuters has a nepotism policy that prevents close family and relations from being in the same reporting chain of command. This policy provides that a conflict of interest exists when “[s]omeone with a close relationship with you is in a direct reporting...