Recent Blog Posts
July: A Busy Month for the EEOC as Agency Battles Employment Discrimination Around the Country
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the federal agency tasked with enforcement of the nation’s employment discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and… Read More »
Must Sexual Harassment Victims Quit To Prove That The Harassment Was Offensive To Them?
One way employers exploit and cause further harm to sexual harassment victims, our Marion County, Florida sexual harassment lawyers have learned, is by conducting bad faith investigations into their sexual harassment complaints. In many cases, employer investigations into sexual harassment complaints are not only rigged to reach a pre-determined conclusion but are also designed… Read More »
Can Direct Contact With An Intimate Body Part Create A Hostile Work Environment?
Through their decades of experience representing sexual harassment victims, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida have learned that a common employment law myth is that a single act of sexual harassment cannot create a sexually hostile work environment. An employment law myth zealously promoted by employers in maintaining that a single incident… Read More »
The Flawed Employer Plea For Immunity: We Took Some Action After Learning Of The Sexual Harassment
Under employment discrimination law, employers are obligated to take remedial action when they know or should know of sexual harassment in the workplace. Having represented sexual harassment victims for decades, our sexual harassment lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have learned that employers routinely maintain they are immune from liability for hostile work environment sexual… Read More »
How Employers Routinely Violate The ADA: By Firing Employees They Regard As Disabled
A common employment law myth, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida have learned, is that employees must have an actual disability in order to be protected from disability discrimination under employment discrimination law. An employment law myth that employers routinely exploit without legal consequences by terminating employees who do not have an… Read More »
Classic Employer Retaliatory Discharge: Failing To Get Fired Employee’s Side Of The Story
Having represented wrongful termination victims for more than two decades, our wrongful termination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that discriminatory and retaliatory discharge cases frequently have common facts. One such common fact is the employer’s failure to get the terminated employee’s side of the story before firing the employee. When an employer has… Read More »
A Common Discriminatory Employment Practice: The Failure To Recall Laid Off Older Workers
Having represented age discrimination victims for more than two decades, our age discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that older workers continue to face significant obstacles in their efforts to gain and retain employment. Employee layoffs is one of the many areas in employment law where older employees continue to endure systemic discrimination…. Read More »
Another Employer Trick: After-The-Fact Justifications For An Employee’s Termination
In employment discrimination cases alleging a discriminatory discharge, employers bear the burden of proffering a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for the challenged termination decision. Through their decades of experience litigating discriminatory discharge cases, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know employers often proffer after-the-fact justifications for the challenged termination decision. In a discriminatory… Read More »
Harassment in the Construction Industry? The Government Has a Plan for That.
Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a guidance document aimed at helping leaders in the construction sector fight employment harassment in the industry. As our Marion County, Florida, employment harassment lawyers well know, workers in the male-dominated construction industry are likely to experience harassment on the job based on their… Read More »
The Usual Employer Response To A Baseless Explanation For An Employment Decision
Through their years of experience litigating employment discrimination cases, our employment discrimination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers frequently change or shift their explanation for the challenged employment decision. Courts have determined that an employer’s shifting factual account or explanation for the challenged employment decision is evidence that the employer’s proffered justification… Read More »
