Jeff Wilpon, the Chief Operating Officer of the New York Mets and son of Mets owner Fred Wilpon, runs his front office department about like his father runs the baseball team: Leigh Castergine, former Vice President of Ticket Sales, recently filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York…
Have you ever had to deal with an unpleasant person at work? When does the inappropriate conduct of someone at work rise to a civil rights violation by your employer? A recent decision by the Fourth Circuit may help answer these questions. The Fourth Circuit upheld racial and sexual hostile work…
Being terminated from your job almost always comes with a huge amount of stress and emotion. There’s a lot to process, and people often want to do that processing very quickly in order to get back up and running. Every day, we see people who have lost their jobs and are understandably…
In Part 1 of our 2 Part series on the EEOC’s new Guidelines on Pregnancy Discrimination, we discussed the first five things you should know about this recent and important guidance. Here are tips six through eleven: 6) Title VII prohibits an employer from offering a health insurance plan that…
On July 14, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) published guidance on laws governing pregnancy-based discrimination for the first time since 1984. Charges of pregnancy discrimination are rising largely due to common and persistent misconceptions about pregnancy in the workplace. The two of the main federal laws concerning pregnancy-related discrimination…
The excellent Ask A Manager blog recently responded to a reader question about whether it is legal for publications to not pay their volunteer writers. As always with legal questions, AAM addresses the underlying issues, but avoids offering legal advice. We’ve decided to expand on legal issues here. As readers…
The Eleventh Circuit recently provided insight as to how federal courts analyze disability discrimination law claims when it held that firing a truck driver because he was diagnosed with alcoholism is not a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Title I of the ADA grants certain protections to…
Do you think that the Fourth Circuit got it wrong when it decided against an employee who was called a “porch monkey” more than once by a coworker and was fired from her job shortly after she complained? You are certainly not alone. Ms. Boyer-Liberto’s complaints about the racists…
On Friday, we discussed the recent discrimination case at arising from employment at a hotel bar between Reya Boyer-Liberto and her former employer, the Fontainebleau Corporation. We move on today to what we can learn from this case of racial language used in the service industry. What the Case Teaches…
Have you ever wondered how bad your working conditions have to become your work is a “hostile work environment?” A recent case may help you decide whether you’re in a position to take legal action. Reya Boyer-Liberto, an African-American woman, sued the Fontainebleu Corporation and her boss Leonard Berger for racial…