Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights

Sexual Harassment and Retaliation: What’s It Worth?

Our employment sexual harassment attorneys often monitor various case verdicts so that we know what cases are worth.  While we know how much our cases settle for, they are mostly covered by confidentiality provisions – which prevent us from using them in these blogs....

The Customer Isn’t Always Right

Catering to the request of a customer is not a defense to a racial discrimination claim. A recent case out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit nicely illustrates this rule of law. In Chaney v. Plainfield Healthcare Center, the defendant, Plainfield...

High Costs Caused By Employment Defense Lawyers

Let me start of by saying that I think highly of many employment defense attorneys. (Heck, I used to be one in a former life.) Many are honest. Many have their clients’ best interest at heart. However, the reality is that defense attorneys are slaves to the billable...

Religious Discrimination: Can You Post Jobs Only On Church Bulletin?

As an employment discrimination attorney, it is easy to simply say that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Ohio Unlawful Discriminatory Practice Statute, R.C. § 4112.99, prohibit religious discrimination in employment. Obviously, you can’t fire someone...

The Further expansion of Military Family Leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Most individuals do not need to speak with an employment attorney to know that, under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), qualifying employees can take up to twelve weeks of unpaid medical leave during a one year period to treat a serious medical condition...

Retaliation and Premeditation Evidence Comes From Fake Employee Improvement Plans

As our employment discrimination attorneys often see happen, an employer decides that it wants to retaliate against an employee or discriminate against an employee for some illegal, unlawful or other nefarious purpose. But, the employer realizes that such conduct...

Age Discrimination Lawsuits: The Age Gap Between Employee and Replacement Must be Significant

According to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in order to support a claim for age discrimination, there must be a “significant” age difference between the terminated employee and his or her replacement.  In Blizzard v. Marion Technical College, the plaintiff,...

Employment Discrimination: The Chicken Or The Egg

Our employment lawyers are often faced with the employment discrimination and retaliation equivalent of the age old chicken and the egg debate. Specifically, a fired employee says that he or she was fired after raising complaints about unlawful race, gender, national...

Sex Discrimination Includes Pregnancy Discrimination

One of the most recently-recognized protected classes is pregnancy. Pursuant to Ohio and federal law, it is unlawful to discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment on the basis of that person’s pregnancy. Specifically, Ohio Revised Code § 4112.02(A)...

Employment Discrimination: Employees v. Independent Contractors

Under Ohio law, it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of that person’s race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry. Ohio’s employment discrimination statutes generally only...