Category Archives: Employment Discrimination
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
How Courts Raise The Bar & Impose Heightened Requirements On Employment Discrimination Victims
Having represented employees for more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that employers have used employer-friendly courts to create a substantial body of law that limits the protection afforded to employees from employment discrimination law. In adopting the narrow interpretations of employment discrimination law advocated by employers, employer-friendly… Read More »
A Common Discriminatory Tactic: Failing To Provide Workers With Adequate Resources To Do Their Job
Through their decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know employers deploy a broad array of discriminatory tactics when seeking to justify eventual termination decisions. One common discriminatory tactic utilized by employers is failing to provide employees with adequate resources to do their job. When deploying this… Read More »
Can Employers Lawfully Fire Employees Based On Hearsay?
Through their decades of experience representing employees, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employees are often terminated based on hearsay. In the termination context, hearsay generally means that the employees involved in making the termination did not communicate, whether verbally or in writing, with the individual who furnished information on which… Read More »
