Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) finalized its regulations in line with the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”). The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a law in the United States, aims to eradicate discrimination and guarantee workplace...
Wrongful Termination
More On The Evils Of Forced Arbitration
On Tuesday, I posted a blog post entitled, Forced Arbitration Sucks, Here’s Why. In the blog post, I outlined 14 separate reasons that forced arbitration causes significant problems for employees and briefly discussed the United States Senate Committee on the...
Yes, You Can Be Fired For Refusing Remedial Training
In the ever-changing landscape of employment law, it's crucial to stay informed about your rights and legal options. Today, let's dive into a recent case that underscores the importance of understanding the nuances of workplace discrimination, retaliation, and the...
Yes, You Can Be Fired For Saying “F*ck (Race) People”
Ashley Bush served as the head coach for the girls’ basketball team at Frederick High School. On February 5, 2020, several members of the varsity team decided to leave the team, alleging that Bush had been treating them abusively. Despite an investigation by the...
Employer’s Lies Are Called Pretext
What does pretext mean? In the context of wrongful termination or employment discrimination, pretext refers to a situation where an employer provides a false or misleading reason for terminating an employee. This reason is presented as the official justification for...
Yes, You Can Be Fired For Serious Safety Violations
Today, our employment discrimination lawyers delve further into the concept of pretext – which is the employee’s burden to show that the employer’s stated reason for termination is false or did not really motivate the employer’s decision. We do so by looking at the...
How Are Work Arbitration Agreements Enforced?
Over the past week, our wrongful termination and employment discrimination attorneys have blogged about the problems that arbitration agreements cause for employees and possible ways to fight your way out of them. (See Arbitration Agreements Are Bad For Employees; Am...
Am I Stuck With An Arbitration Agreement?
Many employees don’t even realize they signed an arbitration agreement at the beginning of their employment and are surprised when the employer attempts to use it to block a lawsuit from moving forward. Our employment discrimination lawyers recently blogged about why...
Arbitration Agreements Are Bad For Employees
Let’s start off with the undisputed truth: Arbitration is bad for employees. In March 2022, in a bipartisan effort, Congress enacted, and President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act into law that precludes employers...
Was I Constructively Discharged?
How do you prove wrongful termination? To establish a claim for wrongful termination, four elements are necessary when direct evidence is lacking: (1) the employee belonged to a protected class, (2) the employee was qualified for the job, (3) the employee was fired,...