Retaliation

Sexual Harassment Through Pasta? – Fire Official Claims Sexual Harassment After Receiving Genitalia-Shaped Pasta At Work.

The employment attorneys of Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm often find that employees are harassed by their employers in a multitude of ways, some illegal and others simply unfair. Indeed, some forms of harassment against employees are more bizarre and out of the...

High Costs Caused By Employment Defense Lawyers

Let me start of by saying that I think highly of many employment defense attorneys. (Heck, I used to be one in a former life.) Many are honest. Many have their clients’ best interest at heart. However, the reality is that defense attorneys are slaves to the billable...

Retaliation and Premeditation Evidence Comes From Fake Employee Improvement Plans

As our employment discrimination attorneys often see happen, an employer decides that it wants to retaliate against an employee or discriminate against an employee for some illegal, unlawful or other nefarious purpose. But, the employer realizes that such conduct...

Employment Discrimination: The Chicken Or The Egg

Our employment lawyers are often faced with the employment discrimination and retaliation equivalent of the age old chicken and the egg debate. Specifically, a fired employee says that he or she was fired after raising complaints about unlawful race, gender, national...

Employment Discrimination: Employees v. Independent Contractors

Under Ohio law, it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of that person’s race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry. Ohio’s employment discrimination statutes generally only...

Age Discrimination: Clarifying A Misconception About Damages

 Our employment discrimination attorneys are often faced with employers that believe that their worst exposure for age discrimination cases is the back wages and then only the back wages for the reasonable amount of time.  Wrong.  First, under the Age Discrimination...

Another F’ed Up Case (The F-Word Is Facebook)

No matter how many times that our employment attorneys, warn clients about the dangers of social media, there are always some that just don’t get it.  Our most recent example comes by way of Lineberry v. Richards, in which Carol Lineberry was a registered nurse at...

Can My Potential Employer Use My Credit Score As A Basis For Denying Me A Job?

  As an employment law attorney, I run into this question quite often, and the short answer is “yes.”  Like all short answers, however, there are a number of variables which can alter this preliminary response.  For instance, a number of class action lawsuits...

Don’t Post About the Case on Social Media!

When a new client retains us to handle their case, one of the first things the attorneys at Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firmadvise the client is not to post about his or her case on social media websites. A recent case provides a good reminder of precisely why we...