Recent Blog Posts
Are Foreign-Born Employees Protected From Hostile Work Environment Harassment?
Having handled employment discrimination cases for more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that foreign-born employees continue to endure systemic discrimination. In far too many cases, foreign-born workers experience blatant discrimination in employment decisions, including hiring, promotion, and termination decisions. Foreign-born workers also experience egregious harassment in the… Read More »
Was A Basketball Coach’s Age In The Minds Of Management When They Decided To Fire Him?
Through decades of experience representing age discrimination victims, our age discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have learned that proving an employee was fired because of his or her age turns on the question of the employer’s motive. As the U.S. Supreme Court explained in Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins, 507 U.S. 604 (1993),… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Disability-Based Hostile Work Environment Harassment?
Through their decades of experience representing employees, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employees with a disability within the meaning of employment discrimination law are often subjected to harassment because of their disability. For example, employees with a disability within the meaning of employment discrimination law are frequently targeted for verbal… Read More »
Delivery Company DHL Ordered to Pay $8.7 Million to Settle Claims of Race Discrimination Brought in EEOC Lawsuit
As a law firm that has been representing victims of racial discrimination in the workplace for over two decades, our employment race discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida, know that employers sometimes discriminate against Black workers by the sorts of tasks they are assigned to compared to their white counterparts. Recently, the Equal Employment… Read More »
Can Gender-Specific Sexually Degrading Language Create A Work Environment Hostile To Women?
Through their decades of experience handling employment discrimination cases, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers routinely argue that employment discrimination law does not create a general civility code in the workplace. This argument is most commonly advanced in sex-based harassment cases where employers maintain that women are required to endure… 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 »
Are American-Born Employees Protected From National Origin Discrimination?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees born in the United States are not protection from national origin discrimination. Because of this employment law myth, many employees are unaware that they have meritorious claims… Read More »
Must Sexual Harassment Victims Make A “Formal” Complaint To Be Protected From Retaliation?
Having fought for the rights of sexual harassment victims for more than twenty years, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers routinely argue that sexual harassment victims are not protected from retaliation unless they make a “formal” sexual harassment complaint. In advancing this disingenuous and flawed argument, employers never come… Read More »
Are Workers Protected From Retaliation When A Lawyer Complains About Discrimination On Their Behalf?
For more than twenty years, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida have fought for the rights of retaliation victims. Through their years of experience handling retaliation claims, our employment attorneys in Ocala, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees must personally complain about workplace discrimination in order to secure… Read More »
Is It a Reasonable Accommodation for an Employee to Use a Store’s Electric Cart While on Duty?
Having litigated disability cases in the workplace for more than two decades, our employment disability discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida, know that employers sometimes refuse to allow employees with disabilities to utilize the most basic and readily available accommodations that would allow them to perform their jobs. Instead, some employers would prefer to… Read More »
