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Many employees choose to file complaints of harassment and/or discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) after being subjected to illegal employment practices in the workplace. More often than not, and EEOC investigation results in the...
Our employment attorneys are frequently asked if the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers individuals with a drug addiction. An employee currently using illegal drugs is not covered by the ADA. But, if the employee has kicked the habit or the company only...
For employment lawyers, it is no secret that the Supreme Court loves alternative methods to dispute resolution, such as arbitration. In the recently handed-down, five-page opinion, in Nitro-Lift Technologies, LLC v. Howard, the Supreme Court affirmed its preference...
Let’s start our scenario with the fact that the employee has been fired – it does not matter if it is based on race discrimination, gender discrimination, national origin discrimination, religious discrimination, disability discrimination, or retaliation for taking...
Bargain retailer Big Lots Stores Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based retailer, recently to pay $155,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit based on facts that our employment discrimination lawyers typically see. As alleged in the lawsuit, the store manager repeatedly...
An action for age discrimination regarding employment can be maintained under three different statutes within the Ohio Civil Right Act, codified as R.C. § 4112.01 et seq. Before bringing a claim for age discrimination, however, it is important to note that the three...
As we move into to the end of 2013, our employment law attorneys cannot help but look back on a year filled with news stories about unpaid interns suing their “employers” for wages and overtime hours spent trying to get their collective foots into various employment...
In a struggling economy, and with many Americans out of work, more and more people are turning to staffing agencies to find employment. And, many employers are concurrently using staffing agencies to find talent. A staffing agency is an organization that matches...
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but name can make employers pay big money. Egyptian employee, Ahmed Elshenawy was just paid $95,000 by Sierra Pacific Industries after the company did nothing after reports of co-workers calling him “Osama,” “camel jockey,”...
As employment law attorneys, we are often asked this question. Common conceptions of fairness dictate that it should be illegal for an employer to terminate an employee for filing a Workers’ Compensation claim after the employee is injured on the job. For this...
In Ohio, to prevail on an employment discrimination claim or a retaliation claim, the employee must demonstrate that he or she suffered what is known as an “adverse employment action.” But one of the questions we as attorneys get asked a lot is what exactly...
Like most people this time of year, I like to count my blessings for the things most important to me in life: my family, my health, and getting to do a job that I like while working with people that I like and respect. However, for a large percentage of our...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a decision which finds that discrimination based on gender identity, change of sex, and/or transgender status is cognizable under Title VII. The case, Mia Macy v. Attorney General, did not weigh the merits of the...
A recent case out of the Seventh District Court of Appeals, Hull v. Astro Shapes, Inc., 2011-Ohio-1656, emphasized the importance of immediately contacting a knowledgeable employment attorney to deal with medical leave issues when any issues arises with an employer. ...
On November 26, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in arguably the most important employment law case to reach our Nation’s highest Court in the last several years. The case is Vance v. Ball State University, and the outcome will determine precisely...
You do not need to be an employment attorney to know that Ohio’s minimum wage is currently $7.60 an hour and that the Ohio Department of Commerce recently announced that the minimum wage will be raised to $7.85 beginning on January 1, 2013. Any employee who works a...