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Yes. Winning in front of a jury does not always guarantee victory for an employee. Imagine the celebration when nine employees, who sued for race/color discrimination and retaliation, each received a jury award of $7 million in their workplace discrimination case—only...
Do Public Employees Have First Amendment Free Speech Rights At Work? Yes, public employees have free speech rights under the First Amendment. But those rights are not unlimited when it comes to workplace conduct. Courts apply a balancing test: does the speech address...
Let’s talk about race discrimination at work. Work rules should apply equally to Black and White employees. Rules and discipline should not change based on the color of an employee’s skin. Belinda Mann gave 35 years of her life to Koch Foods. She believed her...
If you are an employee who took a short medical leave for anxiety or stress and returned ready to work—only to be fired on your first day back—you may be wondering if your employer just broke the law or committed disability discrimination. This is not just a...
If your boss does something inappropriate, unfair, or just downright disrespectful, it is natural to wonder whether you can sue. After all, employees should not have to put up with bad behavior at work. But here is the hard truth: just because your employer acts badly...
Being pregnant doesn’t mean you’re untouchable at work. Just ask Lauralee Richmond. In Richmond v. Team One Contract Services, L.L.C., No. 24-40815, 2025 WL 2206981 (5th Cir. Aug. 4, 2025), she claimed pregnancy discrimination after getting fired while seven months...
Let’s say you’re a tenured law professor at a prestigious law school. You’ve got the job security with tenure that most people only dream about. But then you disrupt a student conference, yell at the dean’s assistant, publicly blast your colleagues through a faculty...
Sometimes, your own words can come back to haunt you—especially if you say the wrong thing to the EEOC. Just ask Adam Gomez. When he filed an charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against his employer, he checked the box that said he was not...
Can your employer legally remove you from your job because of disability discrimination by claiming you are a safety risk—even when your own doctors clear you? The answer, according to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Baldwin v. Union...
When Kassandra Memmer went to work for United Wholesale Mortgage (“UWM”) in 2019, she had no idea what was ahead. While employed as a mortgage underwriter, and according to her employment discrimination lawsuit, Memmer faced sexual harassment from a coworker, gender...
Some employees believe that once they report race/color discrimination, they have a shield against getting fired. And they do - but only from being retaliated against for reporting the racial discrimination. But that anti-retaliation protection can quickly crumble if...
“I would never hire a white person under my watch.” “A white girl ... would never get a position under her watch.” In most employment discrimination cases, there is no smoking gun. Most employers are smart enough to hide bias behind carefully worded evaluations or...
If you’re wondering, “Can my employer ignore my religion and fire me?”—you’re probably dealing with something deeply personal and unjust, likely religious discrimination or the failure of your job to provide you with a religious workplace accommodation. The short...
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), a failure to accommodate occurs when an employer refuses or fails to provide a reasonable accommodation that would allow a qualified employee with a disability to perform the essential functions of their job. That...
Today, I want to talk about something that really grinds my gears and that you as a potential employment law plaintiff should be very wary of – contractually shortened statutes of limitations. Unless you are an avid reader of this blog, you may be unaware that...
If you’re an employee wondering, “Can my employer make me go to arbitration months after I’ve filed a lawsuit?” — you’re not alone. Many workers are shocked to learn that buried in their hiring paperwork is an arbitration agreement their employer never mentioned—until...