Category Archives: Employment Discrimination
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 »
Is An Employer’s Shoddy Investigation Evidence Of A Discriminatory Discharge?
For more than twenty years, our wrongful termination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have litigated wrongful termination cases in Florida courts. Through their decades of experience handling wrongful termination cases, our wrongful termination lawyers in Inverness, Florida know that employees are often told in termination meetings that the decision to terminate their employment was… Read More »
Do Employers Use Performance Improvement Plans To Mask Discriminatory Discharge Decisions?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers deploy an arsenal of weapons to justify discriminatory termination decisions. The weapons used by employers to justify discriminatory termination decisions include unwarranted negative performance evaluations, unjustified disciplinary action, soliciting co-worker or customer complaints,… Read More »
Can an Employer Require Employees to Attend Mandatory Prayer Meetings?
Having represented victims of employment discrimination for decades, our Citrus County, Florida, lawyers know that employees are sometimes discriminated against or retaliated against based on their religious beliefs. Despite strong protections in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits religious discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace, some employers feel… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Discriminatory Denial Of Overtime Opportunities?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that many employees are discriminatorily denied overtime opportunities provided to their co-workers. Under federal employment discrimination law, workers are protected from discrimination with respect to the entire spectrum of the terms, conditions, or privileges of… Read More »
What Is The Most Common Way Employees Prove Unlawful Employment Discrimination?
For more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Marion County, Florida have litigated employment discrimination cases in Florida courts. Through their decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our employment discrimination attorneys in Ocala, Florida have learned that unlawful employment discrimination is most often proven through the disparate treatment discrimination theory. As… Read More »
Should Workers Ask HR Representatives Questions During Their Termination Meeting?
Having litigated wrongful termination cases in Florida courts for more than two decades, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know many employees are informed of their termination during a terminating meeting conducted by a Human Resources (“HR”) employee. In the context of a termination meeting, employees generally should ask the HR employee… Read More »
Are At-Will Employees Protected From Employment Discrimination?
Having battled against employers who engage in discriminatory employment practices for more than two decades, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that many employees mistakenly believe that at will-employees are not protected from employment discrimination. This misperception is perpetuated and exploited by employers who routinely use at-will employment to deceive vulnerable employees…. Read More »
Do Employment Discrimination Victims Need “Smoking Gun” Evidence To Prove Their Case?
Through their decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our employee rights lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees need “smoking gun” evidence in order to prove an employment discrimination case. This employment law myth is disingenuously perpetuated by employers who routinely endeavor to persuade judges… Read More »
Employee Claims He Worked In A Hostile Environment Because Co-Workers Mocked His Religious Beliefs
For more than twenty years, our employment lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights of employment discrimination victims. Through their decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our employment attorneys in Inverness, Florida know that employees are often required to work in an environment where their religious beliefs are mocked or… Read More »
