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Is A Single Age-Related Remark Enough By Itself To Prove A Worker Was Fired Because Of Age?
Having decades of experience representing age discrimination victims, our age discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that employers have used employer-friendly courts to create a substantial body of case law that minimizes the evidentiary value of age-related discriminatory remarks. In order for an age-related discriminatory remark to constitute relevant evidence that the challenged… Read More »
Must Employees Claiming Discriminatory Discharge Prove The Reason For Discharge Was False?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than two decades, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know a common employment law myth is that employment discrimination victims do not have a meritorious case unless they can prove that the employer’s proffered reason for their termination was false or factually untrue. Under this… Read More »
Can Discriminatory Remarks Prove A Discriminatory Failure To Hire Case?
Through their decades of experience handling employment discrimination cases, our employment discrimination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that discriminatory failure to hire cases can be difficult to prove. The inherent difficulty in proving a discriminatory failure to hire case is that job applicants generally have limited personal knowledge or information regarding the circumstances… Read More »
Does Discharge For Good Cause Preclude Employment Discrimination Or Retaliation Claims?
Through their decades of experience representing wrongful termination victims, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees terminated for good cause cannot bring employment discrimination or retaliation claims. An employment law myth that employers tirelessly promote by arguing that termination for good cause legally… Read More »
Cleaning Company Agrees to Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Over the decades of standing up to victims of sexual harassment in Central Florida, our Marion County employment discrimination lawyers have witnessed that despite advances in the workplace, culture and society, women today continue to experience sexual harassment at work in the form of sexual comments, unwelcome sexual advances, and even unwanted touching. This… Read More »
Are Foreign-Born Employees Protected From Hostile Work Environment Harassment?
Having handled employment discrimination cases for more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that foreign-born employees continue to endure systemic discrimination. In far too many cases, foreign-born workers experience blatant discrimination in employment decisions, including hiring, promotion, and termination decisions. Foreign-born workers also experience egregious harassment in the… Read More »
Was A Basketball Coach’s Age In The Minds Of Management When They Decided To Fire Him?
Through decades of experience representing age discrimination victims, our age discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have learned that proving an employee was fired because of his or her age turns on the question of the employer’s motive. As the U.S. Supreme Court explained in Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins, 507 U.S. 604 (1993),… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Disability-Based Hostile Work Environment Harassment?
Through their decades of experience representing employees, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employees with a disability within the meaning of employment discrimination law are often subjected to harassment because of their disability. For example, employees with a disability within the meaning of employment discrimination law are frequently targeted for verbal… Read More »
Delivery Company DHL Ordered to Pay $8.7 Million to Settle Claims of Race Discrimination Brought in EEOC Lawsuit
As a law firm that has been representing victims of racial discrimination in the workplace for over two decades, our employment race discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida, know that employers sometimes discriminate against Black workers by the sorts of tasks they are assigned to compared to their white counterparts. Recently, the Equal Employment… Read More »
Can Gender-Specific Sexually Degrading Language Create A Work Environment Hostile To Women?
Through their decades of experience handling employment discrimination cases, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers routinely argue that employment discrimination law does not create a general civility code in the workplace. This argument is most commonly advanced in sex-based harassment cases where employers maintain that women are required to endure… Read More »
