Retaliation

Religious Discrimination Is Okay, As Long As It’s Done Against A Shareholder-Director-Officer Of Your Company

On April 29, 2013, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a decision in Mariotti v. Mariotti Building Products, Inc.  which concludes that a company can discriminate against its employees based on their religion, in certain circumstances. The plaintiff in the...

Sexual Harassment: Egg On Employer’s Face

Although this conduct occurred on an egg farm, this is not a story about chickens. It is a story about pigs. National Food Corporation, a major supplier of eggs to the Pacific Northwestern and Midwestern United States and East Asia. It owned several isolated egg farms...

Ohio Law Protects Employees Against Negative Job References

To help sort out the well-qualified job applicants from the not-so well-qualified applicants, many employers now require applicants to submit a list of employment references with their application materials. As the employment attorneys at Spitz, The Employee’s Law...

Employment Discrimination: Refusal to Hire

Most of the people that come to visit our employment law lawyers have been unlawfully discriminated or wrongfully terminated by their employer. What most people don’t realize is that potential employees are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,...

Retaliation Claims: Surviving When Then Underlying Claim Fails

One of the worst arguments that our employment lawyers hear from employer-side attorneys is as follows: “Because there is not enough evidence to support a sexually hostile work environment, all the claims go away, even the retaliation claims.” Or, something like:...

Disability Discrimination: The Squeeze From Shift Supervisor To Janitor To No Hours

Derrick Morgan was hired as a crew member at a McDonald’s franchise and then promoted to shift supervisor, where he successfully preformed all his job duties despite having cerebral palsy. Within a few months of Alia Corporation, which operates over 20 McDonald’s...

Retaliation: Now That’s A Lot Of Waffles!

It starts off like any good joke, two racist pigs walk into a Waffle House… They make racist comments and harass staff based on race. The employees turn to management for help, and the manager is left with the question: What should I do? Well, here are a few choices:...