Torrey Terrial Townsend was employed by First Student as a bus driver. After Townsend was fired for leaving keys in an unattended school bus, First Student fired him. Townsend, who is Black, sued her former employer for race discrimination and wrongful termination...
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Yes, You Can Be Fired for Abrasive Behavior Even If You’re Pregnant
Today, our employment discrimination lawyers review another example of an employee being fired for bad conduct but trying to save her job by asserting employment discrimination. In this case out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit,...
Yes, Managers Can Be Fired For Violating Employee Rights Laws
Rafael Fox was promoted to be a store manager at Starbucks in New York. Fox was transferred to the West Broadway and Leonard store to replace the prior store manager, who had committed wage theft violations. In November 2017, New York City’s Fair Workweek legislation...
Yes, Police Officers Can Be Fired For Punching Civilians And Lying About It
Meet Henry Diaz, a former police officer for the City of Somerville in Massachusetts. In the early morning hours of June 30, 2017, Diaz, who was off-duty at the time, was driving through East Boston. When a pedestrian stepped in front of his car, he stopped, got out...
Is Firing Wrongful Based On Potential Symptoms Of Undiagnosed Condition?
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...
Can an Employer Fire Me for Putting My Pronouns in My Email Signature?
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+...
Can I Sue For Wrongful Termination If My Doctor Says I Can No Longer Work?
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...
Can My Wrongful Termination Case Be Dismissed Before It Gets To A Jury?
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...
How Do I Write A Good EEOC Complaint? Get Help
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...
We Stand With Dr. King Every Day
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...