Race Discrimination

Can My Employer Dig Into My Life After I Sue?

Why Discovery Can Feel Invasive But Still Be Required  Sue your employer for race/color discrimination, sexual harassment, or age discrimination, and something deeply annoying happens: the employer gets to investigate you. Documents. Written questions. Witnesses. A...

Can I Sue A Company Under Title VII If I Never Worked There?

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...

Can My Employer Change Its Reason For Firing Me Later?

How Changing Explanations Prove Workplace Discrimination And Retaliation Our wrongful termination attorneys see it all the time. The boss or manager tells an employee they are fired for one reason. Then the employer puts that reason in writing, and suddenly the...

Can My Boss Be A Complete Jerk Without Breaking Employment Law?

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...

Can I Be Fired For Opposing Affirmative Action?

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...

Wrongfully Fired. Should I Represent Myself?

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...

Can My Employer Fire Me Without Giving A Reason?

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...

Yes, You Can Be Fired For Searching Coworkers’ Bags

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....

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