Recent Blog Posts
Employers Cannot Take A “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” Strategy Towards Racial Harassment
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our race discrimination lawyers in Sumter County, Florida know that many employers require workers to endure racial harassment as a condition of their employment. Although required by federal employment discrimination law to protect employees from workplace racial harassment, in far too many cases employers… Read More »
How Do Sexual Harassment Victims Prove That The Sexual Harassment Was Unwanted?
In the sexual harassment litigation context, our sexual harassment lawyers in Sumter County, Florida have learned, employers frequently argue that the victim cannot establish that the sexual harassment she endured was unwanted. In Burns v. McGregor Elec. Indus., Inc., 989 F.2d 959 (8th Cir. 1993), for example, the employer incredulously argued that the victim… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From A Co-Worker’s Sexually Harassing Instagram Posts?
Through their decades of experience handling sexual harassment cases, our sexual harassment lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that employers maintain that employees are not protected from a co-worker’s sexual conduct that took place outside of the physical workplace. Stated another way, employers maintain that they are under no obligation to protect employees from… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Harassing Homophobic Slurs In The Workplace?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our sexual orientation discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that many employees remain unaware that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status is an unlawful employment practice. For decades, federal courts ruled that federal employment discrimination law provides no protection… Read More »
Must Sexual Harassment Victims Work With The Harasser While An Investigation Is On-Going?
For more than twenty years, our sexual harassment lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights of sexual harassment victims. Through their decades of experience representing sexual harassment victims, our sexual harassment attorneys in Inverness, Florida know that many sexual harassment victims request not to work with the harasser while an investigation… Read More »
Must Employers Respond To Subsequent Complaints Against The Same Sexual Harasser From Other Victims?
Having represented sexual harassment victims for more than twenty years, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that sexual harassers often prey on more than one victim in the workplace. Once one victim lodges a sexual harassment complaint, employers customarily argue they are absolved from liability for sexual harassment towards the complaining… Read More »
FMLA Guidelines for Employees
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is an essential federal law designed to help employees balance work and family responsibilities during significant life events. For employees in Marion County, understanding your rights under the FMLA is essential if you need to take leave for medical or family reasons without risking your job. Here,… Read More »
How Employers Discriminatorily Raise The Bar: Worker Must Be “Twice As Good” As Employees Of Different Race
Having practiced employment law for more than twenty years, our race discrimination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that disparate treatment is the most common type of racial discrimination in the workplace. As the U.S. Supreme Court in Teamsters v. United States, 431 U.S. 324 (1977) observed, “disparate treatment . . . is the… Read More »
A Common Pretextual Reason For Firing Employees: The Phantom Employee Or Customer Complaint
Through their decades of experience litigating wrongful termination cases, our wrongful termination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that employers mask their discriminatory motive by proffering pretextual reasons for firing employees. To prove their case in the employment discrimination context, employees must establish that the proffered reason for their termination is a pretext. As… Read More »
How Employers Attempt To Explain Away A Hostile Work Environment: The Harassment Was “Just Joking”
Through their decades of experience representing hostile work environment harassment victims, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that employers’ resort to a broad array of disingenuous defenses against hostile work environment harassment claims. In the context of racial and national origin harassment claims, employers invariably contend, even in the most egregious… Read More »
