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Is An Employee Required To Show That The Harasser Intended To Be Offensive In Order To Establish A Racial Harassment Claim?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits racial harassment that creates a hostile work environment. This happens when the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment. Read… Read More »
Are Employees Protected Against A Retaliatory Transfer For Complaining About Sexual Harassment?
The federal employment discrimination laws protect employees from retaliation for opposing any employment practice made unlawful under the employment discrimination statutes. For example, employees are protected from retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment in the workplace. However, the federal employment discrimination laws do not make all retaliatory actions unlawful. Rather, the federal employment laws… Read More »
Florida Restaurant Pays Out $2.85 Million in Age Discrimination Settlement
The federal Age Discrimination In Employment Act (ADEA) protects employees and job applicants from discrimination on the basis of age. Ageism is one of the most common forms of workplace discrimination, although it is often a difficult claim to prove. Refusal to hire an employee for being aged over 40, or discriminatory treatment of… Read More »
Employer’s Response To Employee’s Complaint Of Customer Sexual Harassment: “Nothing Is Going To Change”
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), sexually harassing behavior that is severe or pervasive enough to create a hostile or abusive work environment is unlawful. In holding that sexual harassment is prohibited by Title VII, the U.S. Supreme Court in Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson, 477 U.S…. Read More »
Can Racial Code Words Be Used To Prove Race Discrimination?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), employers are forbidden from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. One method of proving that an employment decision was unlawfully motivated by an employee’s race is to show that discriminatory comments were made by a decision-maker or those in a… Read More »
The Americans With Disabilities Act Forbids Employers From Making Disability-Related Inquiries
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects employees from discrimination on the basis of disability. Under the ADA, employers are prohibited from making disability-related inquiries regarding an employee’s health. More specifically, the ADA provides that an employer “shall not require a medical examination and shall not make inquiries of an employee as to whether… Read More »
Can Employers Discriminate Against Employees Based On The Racial Preferences Of Customers?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. Having litigated employment discrimination cases for almost twenty years, our Marion County, Florida race discrimination attorneys have learned that employers sometimes attempt to justify employment decisions on grounds that they were… Read More »
Federal Court Rules That Title VII Protects Transgender Individuals From Discrimination Based On Their Transgender Status
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) protects employees from discrimination because of sex. In Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989), the U.S. Supreme Court held that unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII includes discrimination against employees for failure to conform to sex or gender stereotypes. As the… Read More »
Employer Claims Employee’s Discrimination Complaint Is A Lie & An Attempt To Extort Severance Pay
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and religion. Title VII contains an anti-retaliation provision which prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for complaining about race, color, national origin, sex, or religious discrimination in the workplace. In… Read More »
Supervisor Who Fired Pregnant Employee Allegedly Said: “I Have Too Many Pregnant Workers”
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), employers are prohibited from discriminating against employees on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. As observed by the U.S. Supreme Court in California Federal Sav. and Loan Ass’n v…. Read More »
