Category Archives: Race Discrimination
Is An Employee Required To Show That The Harasser Intended To Be Offensive In Order To Establish A Racial Harassment Claim?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits racial harassment that creates a hostile work environment. This happens when the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment. Read… Read More »
Can Racial Code Words Be Used To Prove Race Discrimination?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), employers are forbidden from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. One method of proving that an employment decision was unlawfully motivated by an employee’s race is to show that discriminatory comments were made by a decision-maker or those in a… Read More »
Can Employers Discriminate Against Employees Based On The Racial Preferences Of Customers?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. Having litigated employment discrimination cases for almost twenty years, our Marion County, Florida race discrimination attorneys have learned that employers sometimes attempt to justify employment decisions on grounds that they were… Read More »
Court Rules That Employee’s Tying A Rope Into A Noose Can Create A Racial Hostile Work Environment
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) prohibit employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. Although Title VII and the FCRA do not mention racial harassment, courts have uniformly held that racial harassment is a form of race discrimination prohibited… Read More »
Court Finds Sufficient Evidence To Show That Employee Was Discriminatorily Fired For Punching Supervisor Who Used Racial Slurs
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Under Title VII, employers are required to treat all employees the same. However, as our Central Florida race discrimination attorneys have learned through litigating race discrimination… Read More »
Racial Harassment Does Not Necessary Have To Occur At The Workplace To Create A Hostile Working Environment
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. Although Title VII does not mention racial harassment, courts have consistently held that racial harassment is a form of race discrimination prohibited by Title VII. As explained by the U.S. Eighth Circuit… Read More »
Federal Court Concludes That Hispanic Constitutes A Race For Purposes Of Federal Employment Discrimination Law
For years, courts have struggled with the question as to whether Hispanic constitutes a race for purposes of federal employment discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (section 1981). Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis race, color,… Read More »
Miami Officer Sues for Racial Discrimination
Illegal discrimination in the workplace based on race can occur not only to people of color, but also to Caucasian people. These claims can be more difficult to prove, since systems tend to be more favorable to white employees than those of other races, but if proven, this type of discrimination can make white… Read More »
Court Rejects Employer’s Rationales For Treating Employees Differently In Race Discrimination Case
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. As explained by the U.S. Supreme Court in Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power v. Manhart, 435 U.S. 702 (1978), a fundamental purpose of Title VII is “to strike at the… Read More »
Court Finds That Employer’s Baseless Rationales For Firing Employee Establish A Strong Case Of Race Discrimination
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) forbids employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. Having long represented employees who have been subjected to race discrimination, our Central Florida race discrimination lawyers have learned that employers frequently proffer a bagful of reasons to justify an employee’s termination…. Read More »