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The Employer’s Retaliatory Dirty Trick: Setting An Employee Up For Failure
Employers, our wrongful termination lawyers in Sumter County, Florida know, have a bagful of dirty tricks they use to retaliate against employees who complain workplace discrimination. When dipping into their bagful of retaliatory dirty tricks, employers will subject employees to disciplinary action, unfavorable work schedules, reduced hours, or performance improvement plans. Playing the long… Read More »
Is An Employer’s Flawed Investigation Evidence Of A Discriminatory Termination?
In the context of employment discrimination litigation, our wrongful termination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have learned that employers routinely argue the mere fact that an investigation was conducted before firing employee conclusively establishes that the employee was fired for a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason. Some employers, knowing the judiciary has been stacked for decades… Read More »
The Discriminatory Reduction In Force: Employer Finds Positions For Younger, But Not Older, Workers
Having represented age discrimination victims for more than two decades, our wrongful termination lawyers in Sumter County, Florida know employers believe that age discrimination claimants cannot prevail when they proffer reduction in force as the reason for termination. Recognizing that if they present just a shred of evidence showing an economic basis for the… Read More »
Worker Given Negative Performance Review & Fired Less Than A Month After Disclosing Her Pregnancy
Having represented pregnant employees for more than twenty years, our pregnancy discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that employees are often targeted for termination after disclosing their pregnancy. When targeting pregnant employees for termination, our pregnancy discrimination lawyers in Inverness, Florida have learned, employers will dig into their bagful of pretextual justifications for… Read More »
How to Prove Retaliation in the Workplace
Retaliation in the workplace occurs when an employer takes adverse action against an employee for engaging in a legally protected activity, such as reporting discrimination, harassment, or illegal workplace practices. Employees who face retaliation may experience termination, demotion, a cut in hours, or other negative consequences. Proving retaliation, however, requires more than just showing… Read More »
Can A Single Incident Of Sexual Assault Create An Unlawful Hostile Work Environment?
In the sexual harassment litigation context, our sexual harassment lawyers in Sumter County, Florida have learned, employers routinely argue that a single incident of sexual assault is insufficient to create a hostile working environment. Pointing to repeated incidents of physical conduct of a sexual nature in other sexual harassment cases, employers contend that such… Read More »
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 »
