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SUPPLIER: Interactive Employment Training, Inc., Jericho, N.Y. DESCRIPTION: This online course is designed to teach supervisors how to identify potential problems related to discriminatory harassment and how to resolve them by following the companyís discriminatory harassment policy. The interactive program presents 11 scenarios illustrating a variety of discriminatory harassment themes. Users are asked questions in […]
TRANSFER NOT RETALIATORY – EEONews
A credit administrator claimed race discrimination and was transferred – two years later. The Seventh Circuit found that “the hint of causation weakens as the time between the protected expression and the adverse action increases, and the plaintiff must offer additional proof of a causal nexus.”
PUNITIVE DAMAGES AVAILABLE FOR RETALIATORY FLSA FIRING – EEONews
An employee who was fired in retaliation for reporting wage and benefit improprieties is entitled to recover punitive damages under the FLSA. A federal court in Pennsylvania interpreted the phrase “legal or equitable relief” under the anti-retaliatory provision of the FLSA to include punitive damages. Marrow v. Allstate Security & Investigative Services Inc. The court […]
NEGATIVE REFERENCE WAS RETALIATORY – EEONews
A negative reference that would likely impact future job opportunities is unlawful retaliation for bringing a race discrimination claim, even without proof that a specific job was lost because of the bad reference.
MANAGER LANDS IN JAIL FOR ONE YEAR – EEONews
The Catering Director of Le Bar Bat in New York City has been convicted of obstruction of justice and sentenced to one year in prison. When the EEOC investigated a sexual harassment complaint, the Catering Director targeted the Complainants with fliers accusing them of prostitution, child molestation and drug dealing. He then asked his co-workers […]
E-DISCOVERY – EEONews
UBS Warburg LLC was sued for sex discrimination and retaliation. Plaintiff sought emails in discovery to prove her case. The emails were archived and would cost $175,000 to restore and produce. A federal judge ordered the employer, at its expense, to turn over all emails on optical disk or an active server.
BLACKBALLED FROM OVERTIME – EEONews
A telephone technician was denied overtime opportunities after complaining about religious discrimination. He was also given a more difficult assignment and a van that was not air-conditioned. The court found that the reassignment itself was not an adverse employment action, but when accounting for everything, the court did find unlawful retaliation.
BANK PRESIDENT'S MOONING COSTS $1 MILLION + – EEONews
A division bank president mooned two employees who complained about the incident. They were fired for complaining and collected back pay, future damages, compensatory damages and $250,000 each for punitive damages.
$1 MILLION VERDICT REVERSED – EEONews
A jury awarded $1 million to a clerk at a GM plant. The Eighth Circuit found that boorish behavior was not “so severe and extreme that a reasonable person would find that the terms and conditions of … employment had been altered.”