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Sometimes employment discrimination cases do not fit a predisposed pattern of wrongful termination or even refusal to hire cases. Nonetheless, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes protect employees from discrimination based on their...
Haley Hrdlicka was employed by General Motors for over 30 years. For the vast majority of that time, she worked in GM’s Sculpting Department. In 1998, GM provided her an eight-month leave of absence after the birth of her first child; and then in 2001, Hrdlicka was...
Discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is far too common, especially these days. It seems like you cannot turn on the news without seeing a story about discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. If it is not a story about LGBTQ+...
Let’s look at the recent case Hightower v. Keystone Automotive Indus., No. 5:21-CV-1792, 2023 WL 1412917 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 31, 2023) out of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Although our employment law blogs typically focus on United...
As our employment lawyers have regularly preached in our blogs, do not wait to bring your potential discrimination claims. This point was recently highlighted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Brannon v. Secretary, Department Of...
In Okwo v. Houston Methodist the Woodlands, No. 22-20457, 2023 WL 1256576, at *1 (5th Cir. Jan. 31, 2023), Ogochukwo J. Okwo was offered employment by Houston Methodist. However, the job offer was made conditional on the “successful completion of a criminal and...
Our employment law attorneys blog a lot about the substantive law that protects employees from being wrongfully fired or otherwise discriminated against based on race/color, national origin, religion, gender/sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation, gender...
As our employment discrimination attorneys have harped on, there are a lot of problems that can ruin a wrongful termination if you try to go through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) process on your own. Any claim filed under Title VII must first...
Today, we look at the recent United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit race discrimination case, Hudson v. Lincare, Inc., No. 22-50149, 2023 WL 240929, at *1 (5th Cir. Jan. 18, 2023). The plaintiff-employee in this case, Brittany Hudson, is a Black female...
Today, I start a trial in a race discrimination case where the employer previously testified that it was not against the company policy for white employees, including the operations manager, to say “n*gger.” When confronted with my client’s objections to the use of...