743 results for 'cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination" AND cat:"Employment Retaliation"'.
J. Stadtmueller grants summary judgment to the plumbing products manufacturer in a lawsuit from an employee claiming she was disciplined more harshly than her white coworkers and fired because she is Black. The record contains multiple instances of the employee failing to meet the manufacturer's attendance and performance standards, and based on the evidence, the legitimate issues the employer cited when firing her had nothing to do with her race.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Stadtmueller, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv65, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Knepp grants Ford's motion for summary judgment on the black employee's discrimination claim, ruling the failure by the employee during his deposition to name any similarly-situated white employees treated more favorably when they were late or had to leave shifts early requires dismissal of that charge. Meanwhile, a single call to Ford's ethics hotline during which the employee claimed he was being "birdwatched" for previous disciplinary issues is insufficient to constitute protected activity and cannot support the employee's retaliation claim, which is dismissed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Knepp, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv1368, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Williams rules in part for a company accused of firing an equipment driver for taking medical leave twice. The company plausibly demonstrated the employee had been fired due to a company wide reduction in force and that at least one similarly situated, non-disabled employee had been retained. However, the employee plausibly demonstrated a causal nexus between his workers' compensation claims and his firing.
Court: USDC New Jersey, Judge: Williams , Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv19875, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
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[Consolidated.] Per curiam, the circuit finds that the district court improperly dismissed a school district employee's discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation claims. The employee established that because she filed internal complaints before pursuing claims with state and federal agencies, the district took adverse employment actions within months. However, the employee was properly denied recusal based on bias concerning adverse rulings and comments about her frequent litigation.
Court: 2nd Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: May 30, 2023, Case #: 21-2683 (L), Categories: employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Anderson denies the defendant college's motion to dismiss this Title VII discrimination lawsuit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In its reply, the college challenges the complaint as to "the exhaustion of Plaintiff's discrimination claims before the EEOC." However, this is not a jurisdictional argument. Also, the court will allow the individual plaintiff an extension of time for service.
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Anderson, Filed On: May 26, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv2537, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Xinis grants T.J. Maxx’s motion for summary judgment following allegations of race discrimination brought by a former store manager. The manager, a Black woman, was fired, but she had several incidents of forgery in her record over her five years with the company. Also, other Black employees of similar stature were not discriminated against due to race and a Black person was hired in her place, so she lacks standing.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Xinis, Filed On: May 25, 2023, Case #: 8:20cv3204, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Chutkan denies, in part, the government's motion to dismiss discrimination and retaliation claims filed by a veteran and former worker with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has adequately pleaded his claims for age and disability discrimination.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Chutkan , Filed On: May 24, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv2709, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Veterans, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. McShane denies summary judgment to the department of corrections for the corrections officer's claim that another officer sexually assaulted her, leading her to resign when rumors circulated that she consensually slept with the other officer to advance her career. A jury could reasonably assume that the corrections officer's co-workers retaliated against her for filing her complaint because the rumors and hostile work environment happened on a regular basis for nearly a year, to the point that she had to take leave multiple times to handle her anxiety and panic attacks, and the department of corrections' refusal to investigate the rumors could be construed as retaliation.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: McShane, Filed On: May 23, 2023, Case #: 6:21cv1267, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, Whistleblowers, employment Retaliation
J. Carney finds in favor of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affair for the former blind rehabilitation specialist’s claim that she was fired from her probationary position at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center’s Blind Rehabilitation Center because she is a brown-skinned Hispanic who raised concerns about disparate workplace treatment, patient wait times and faulty equipment. The former employee does not show that the “legitimate, nondiscriminatory, nonretaliatory” reasons for her termination were pretextual, because they were based on her poor work performance and disrespectful conduct.
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Carney, Filed On: May 22, 2023, Case #: 8:21cv1283, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Milazzo denies a request by a pest control company to dismiss a religious discrimination suit by an employee fired for refusing to get a mandated Covid-19 vaccination. The former employee alleges he was terminated in August 2021 because he told his employer that his Catholic faith prevented him from being injected with the vaccine derived from aborted fetal cell lines. In response, a manager allegedly stated, “The Pope wants you to take it.” Terminix denies the allegation. The company unsuccessfully argued the ex-employee makes no factual connection between his “sincerely held belief and his termination.” The terminated exterminator has established a claim for religious discrimination.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Milazzo, Filed On: May 19, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv3701, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Silva grants the county’s motion for summary judgment in this suit brought by its former employee alleging wrongful termination and disability and race discrimination, and that she was fired for filing a workers’ compensation claim. It is undisputed that the employee failed to present any claim within two years of her termination, and that claim is time-barred. The employee was a temp worker, and the only evidence in the record indicating a hostile work environment is her own subjective, unsupported belief that her coworkers’ rudeness was based on her race.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Silva, Filed On: May 18, 2023, Case #: 2:20cv1811, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation