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An interesting case out of Spokane, Washington has just caught media attention involving a female hairstylist who was terminated by her employer after shaving head. The hairstylist, Melanie Strandberg, made the choice to shave her head in order to support her sister...
As anyone with a television set, radio, or the internet is already aware, the United States Supreme Court recently declared the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) to be unconstitutional. This landmark decision has immense implications for the federal benefits which will...
The staffing firm Day & Zimmerman received an employee’s complaints about racial harassment and physical abuse and then allegedly, disregarded and retaliated against the employee by firing him. Specifically, the complaint alleged that a foreman at Day &...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently announced a lawsuit filed against Performance Food Group, Inc. (“PFG”), one of the nation’s largest foodservice distributors. The lawsuit alleges that PFG,and its predecessor, subsidiary, and affiliate...
Back in January, our employment discrimination lawyers blogged about the woman in Iowa that was fired for being too irresistible to her employer (Read the blog). Essentially, the Iowa Supreme Court held that a boss could fire a female employee to avoid dealing with...
Bad news for employees who want to push religion in the workplace: Employers may legally demote an employee for discussing religion at work. In Hall v. Tift County Hosp., the District Court for the Middle District of Georgia rejected Plaintiff Pamela Hall’s religious...
Does the fact that sexual harassment is directed at both female and male employees make it okay? The answer, according to the Minnesota Supreme Court, is no. In Rasmussen v. Two Harbors Fish Company, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that sexual harassment need not be...
What if an employee works in more than one position at your job? What if an employee has one job title but perform job duties under two or more different positions? With employers looking for fewer employees to perform more job duties these days, an interesting...
A recent U.S. District Court decision in Gillis v. Wal-Mart highlights the question of whether an employee can bring a claim against his or her employer for hostile work environment when the underlying conduct that serves as the basis for the claim occurred outside of...
It should be common sense that employers, supervisors, and co-workers should not be able to use the “N-Word” while at work without some consequences being attached, but, as employment attorneys, it is the job of the members of Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm to...
As employment attorneys, the members of Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm spend a lot of time discerning whether our clients have been properly compensated and if our clients properly and/or improperly characterized as “salaried” employees exempt from the Fair Labor...
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Ohio R.C. § 4112.02(A) it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate based on the sex of the applicant for hiring or promotion. As the United States Supreme Court held in Hunt v. Cromartie, “outright admissions of...
As an employment attorney, I often field questions from individuals regarding what their employers can legally require, once being put on notice of an employee’s disability. Many individuals wonder if their employers are allowed to obtain copies of their medical...
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal law that permits employees to take job-protected, unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. According to the U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division, to be eligible for FMLA leave, an employee...
The 2010 federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), and mandates that employers of 50 or more to provide an unpaid break as well as a private area to express or pump the milk. It also prevents discrimination or...
The United States District Court for the Western District of New York recently underwent a three week racial discrimination and retaliation trial in the matter of Elijah Turley v. ISG Tackawanna, LLC, et al., and the jury returned a verdict of some $23.5 million...