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Dr. Carol Warfield recently receive a $7-million-dollar settlement from a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital after filing claims of gender discrimination. Warfield’s lawsuit alleged that she was demoted from department chairwoman for being “too aggressive” and...
The United States District Court for the Western District of New York recently underwent a three week racial discrimination and retaliation trial in the matter of Elijah Turley v. ISG Tackawanna, LLC, et al., and the jury returned a verdict of some $23.5 million...
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...
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...
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), if an employer requires to be somewhere or do something, they must pay the employees for the entire time – even if that time is spent waiting to work. Lucca Freezer & Cold Storage did not follow this requirement and has...
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...
The Fair Labor Standards Act provides several exceptions to the general rule that if an employee works over 40 hours in a work week, then the employee is entitled to overtime compensation. Among the lesser known exemptions is the Equity Interest Exemption, which...
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,...
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:...
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...