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Walmart Back in EEOC’s Crosshairs, This Time for Sex Discrimination
It wasn’t so long ago that we reported on a lawsuit charging the world’s employer with disability discrimination of an employee at one of its stores in Arizona (Walmart Sued for Disability Discrimination…Again, posted June 30, 2023). We noted then that Walmart is a frequent target of charges from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission… Read More »
Can Employers Fire Disabled Employees While Their Request For An Accommodation Is Still Outstanding?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than two decades, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have learned that most employers resist providing disabled workers with an accommodation for their disability. Rarely do employers engage in good faith efforts to determine whether they can accommodate disabled employees. In some cases, employers even… 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 »
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 Florida Employers Fire Employees For Attempting To Make A Workers’ Comp Claim?
Having represented wrongful termination victims for more than twenty years, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employees are often targeted for termination after suffering a work-related injury. In order to provide protection from retaliation to vulnerable workers who are injured at work, the Florida Legislature enacted section 440.205, Florida Statutes…. Read More »
Can Berating Female Employees Create An Unlawful Hostile Working Environment?
For more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights of employees who have been required to work in a hostile environment. Through their decades of experience representing hostile work environment victims, our employment discrimination attorneys in Ocala, Florida know that a common employment law myth… Read More »
Medical Group Agrees to Pay Nearly $7 Million to Resolve Discrimination Charges Stemming From Mandatory Retirement Age Policy
Scripps Clinical Medical Group (Scripps) is a multispecialty healthcare practice in San Diego, California, boasting more than 950 physicians and clinicians among its members. Earlier this month, Scripps agreed to pay $6.875 million to resolve claims of age and disability discrimination related to the company’s mandatory retirement age policy. The policy required an entire… Read More »
Must Employers Distribute A Sexual Harassment Policy To Employees?
Through their decades of experience representing sexual harassment victims, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers routinely argue that they are not liable for any sexually harassing behavior in the workplace because they maintained a sexual harassment policy prohibiting sexual harassment. Under federal employment discrimination law, employers must exercise reasonable… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From A Supervisor’s Sexual Behavior After Ending A Consensual Relationship?
Through their decades of experience representing sexual harassment victims, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees are not protected from sexual harassment from a supervisor with whom they have had a consensual sexual relationship. An employment law myth perpetuated by employers who routinely… Read More »
