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Mitsuwa Corporation, the largest Japanese supermarket in the United States, recently agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). The lawsuit alleged that Mitsuwa...
In May of this year, a federal jury in Iowa sent a $240-million-dollar message to any company that believes it can take advantage of intellectually-disabled workers without suffering the consequences – think again. The award came at the conclusion of a disability...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in addition to its recent flurry of more widely known decisions dealing with gay rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act, issued several other lesser known decisions, including Vance v. Ball State University, a decision directly...
It seems obvious that treating someone unfavorably because that person is a member of a particular race or because that person has a certain skin color complexion is discriminatory, and therefore, illegal. But what about employment policies or practices that apply to...
It seems obvious that it cannot allow the use of racial slurs in the workplace to refer to a co-workers. But, can an employer be held liable for one of its employee’s written racist messages in the workplace? This question was just posed to our team of employment...
The employment discrimination lawyers at Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm were recently asked about the viability of race discrimination claims when the employee and the employer harasser are the same race. Can black managers racially discriminate against black...
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) seems to be expanding its definition of “disability.” Just last month, the American Medical Association voted to re-classify obesity from a condition to a disease. As such, obesity – even perceived disability – likely...
Our wage and hour attorneys were recently asked: Are employers required to pay employees for holidays? The answer: well, it depends. Employers are not required to pay non-exempt employees for holidays. Non-exempt employees are those employees subject to the overtime...
Let’s start with the ending, in granting a very rare partial motion for summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs, Judge Kimball wrote that the conduct of Holmes & Holmes Industrial, Inc. (“Holmes”), a construction company, was “constitutionally offensive in any...
Employment law attorneys understand that disability discrimination encompasses both real and imagined disabilities. To be sure, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of a disability, even discrimination because an employer...