Warren Glover, 50, was fired as a security director in July, after ten years with the N.B.A., despite a glowing performance record, a recently filed lawsuit alleges (filed in New York State Supreme Court). However, after raising complaints of sexual harassment by his supervisor on behalf of women who were…
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Article appeared in The Daily Record A federal judge has reduced a $1 million punitive damages award to $50,000 following a jury trial in which a black former employee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital proved that management retaliated against him for complaining about racial discrimination in the workplace, Chisholm v.…
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Article appeared in The Daily Record A magazine employee’s sex and age discrimination retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and Connecticut state law may proceed, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled, nothing that a jury could…
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A hospital worker requested that she not be scheduled to work Friday evenings and Saturdays in order to accommodate her Sabbath beliefs as a Seventh Day Adventist. The employer claimed that it offered to let the worker switch her Friday evening shifts with employees who were not scheduled to work…
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The Court of Appeals has reversed summary judgment in a disability discrimination case, holding that the jury could find that the plaintiff was disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act and that her employer offered pretextual reasons for her termination, Bar-Tur v. Arience Capital Management, LP, 11-864-cv, summary order (Aug.…
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The EEOC has issued a new guidance on the issues of discrimination and retaliation in the workplace based on employees who experience domestic or dating violence, sexual assault or stalking. Title VII’s prohibition is discussed in two parts:
Disparate treatment based on sex, including sexual stereotypes; and Sex-based harassment-hostile work…
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By Lindy Korn Article appeared in The Daily Record “You need to pick up all the garbage bags for this street, including the hazardous waste from the hospital,” the sanitary district supervisor said. “You’re still after me because of what my dad told the investigators aren’t you?”(Puglisi v. Town of…
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By Lindy Korn Article appeared in The Daily Record The Court of Appeals has reversed summary judgment in a Title VII retaliation case, interpreting for the first time the Supreme Court’s “but for” reasoning in retaliation cases, Kwan v. The Andalex Group, LLC, 12-2493-cv, decided Dec. 16. Kwan worked as vice…
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Article appeared in The Daily Record A jury on Feb. 29 unanimously awarded a female employee $168 million in damages and lost wages, believed to be the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in the U.S. history (Chopourian v. Catholic Healthcare West, E.D. Cal., No. CIV S-09-2972).…
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Article appeared in The Daily Record The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that district court erroneously dismissed the plaintiff’s retaliations claims against the city, and determined that even though the plaintiff’s rank and salary were not reduced, a reasonable police officer could easily view the change…
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