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Can I Get Punitive Damages For Wrongful Termination?

by | Sep 1, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Family Medical Leave Claims, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, Military Status Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Wage: Minimum Wage, Wage: Overtime, Wage: Tipped Employees, Wrongful Termination

In the past, our employment attorneys have addressed the issue of damages and how we calculate them arising out of wrongful termination and other forms of employment discrimination. (Best Law Read: What Kind of Damages Can You Get for Wrongful Termination and...

Can I Be Fired For Bad Attendance After Reporting Discrimination Or Harassment?

by | Aug 30, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination

As our employment attorneys at Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm have discussed previously, retaliation claims are considerably easier to prove than race/color, religion, gender (including pregnancy and LGBTQ+ status), national origin, and disability discrimination...

Can My Employer Fire Me For Wearing Black Lives Matter Gear?

by | Aug 29, 2022 | Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Race Discrimination, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

In recent years, there has been a surge in the support of movements that seek to highlight and oppose racism and various forms of race discrimination. One such movement is Black Lives Matter (“BLM”). The vast majority of BLM supporters promote the cause by wearing...

What Can I Do About Pay Discrimination At My Job?

by | Aug 25, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination

It is unlawful to pay employees less to do the same job simply based on the employees’ race/color, religion, gender/sex (including pregnancy and LGBTQ+ status), or national origin. Often times, our team of attorneys hear from employees reporting that “I’m Black and...

Employment Law: What Is The Honest Belief Rule?

by Taurean Shattuck | Aug 23, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

Our employment attorneys frequently blog about how employees prove race/color, religion, gender/sex, LGBTQ+ status, national origin, and disability discrimination claims against their employers. (Best Law Read: How Do You Win A Wrongful Termination Claim?; How Do You...

The EEOC Will Not Help You Properly Fill Out The Charging Form

by Taurean Shattuck | Aug 22, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination

Recently, our employee’s rights lawyers have blogged about various reasons why you shouldn’t file charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) alone. (Best Law Read: Don’t File With The EEOC On Your Own; It’s Bad To File With The EEOC Without A...

How Do You Prove Causation In Wrongful Termination Cases?

by | Aug 19, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

If you have read our discrimination attorneys’ previous posts, you have learned a great deal about employment discrimination in all its forms. To recap: most states are considered at-will employment states, meaning your employer can fire you for any reason, as long as...

How Do I Prove Pretext For My Wrongful Termination?

by | Aug 17, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Family Medical Leave Claims, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Whistleblower Claims, Workers' Compensation Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

At Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm, our attorneys constantly hear questions from potential clients asking how they could have been fired when they have received only excellent performance reviews and have no history of discipline at their jobs. Today, we are going to...

Can I Avoid Poor Performance Discipline By Reporting Discrimination?

by | Aug 16, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Family Medical Leave Claims, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

Most employers are not going to tell an employee that they are being written up or wrongfully fired because he or she reported race/color, religion, age discrimination or because the employee opposed sexual harassment. (Best Law Read: What Are Examples Of Unlawful...

Can My Employer Discredit My Claims By Using Alleged Criminal Activity Of Which I Was Never Convicted?

by Patricia Brandt | Aug 12, 2022 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Equal Pay Act Claims, Family Medical Leave Claims, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, LGBTQ Discrimination, Military Status Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Non-Competition Disputes, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sales Commission Disputes, Sexual Harassment, Wage: Minimum Wage, Wage: Overtime, Wage: Tipped Employees, Whistleblower Claims, Workers' Compensation Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

The short answer is it depends. There are very limited circumstances where such evidence can be used, and your employer would be the burden of convincing the court that such evidence of prior bad acts falls through that narrow window. Whether the court will allow such...

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