Employment Discrimination

Age discrimination occurs when an employee or applicant is treated less favorably because of his or her age.  This includes non-consideration for positions, demotions, or job loss.  The employee or applicant must be 40 years old to be the victim of age discrimination. In 2016, 20,847 age discrimination complaints were…

When Congress enacted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, it amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. There is currently limited case law on whether a male can…

A Massachusetts subsidiary of Dell Technologies agreed to pay $110,000 in restitution and launch an employee training program to settle a former employee’s complaint of discrimination that she says she faced based on her sex and gender identity. The employee reported that she experienced hostility at the company, was denied…

Imagine being constantly mocked by your supervisors for using too much toilet paper.  That’s what Tracey Boudine, age 50 claims in her lawsuit against Wise Public Relations. Tracey claims she was teased about her need to use the bathroom and her need as a women to use toilet paper more…

Virginia Tucker was 60 and the second oldest employee in the maintenance department of Chobani’s yogurt plant in Idaho. She claims her younger male supervisor in a supervisors’ meeting said she should be given negative performance ratings because she was a threat to the company.  He felt she should be…

The age of the Internet has opened a lot of options to people — some good, some bad.  Unfortunately, under the bad, it has become a tool for those who wish to harass others, including their co-workers. In an incident that recently came to our attention, a young girl was…

The Center for American Progress recently released findings that wage discrimination is a problem faced by a multitude of groups including women, men, workers with disabilities, and older Americans. A review of unpublished Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data from the last four fiscal years shows that men filed 15 percent…

Richard Villarreal sued R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. for age discrimination when he was denied work as a territory manager in November 2007.  The Eleventh Appeals Court stated that as an applicant, he could not sue an employer for “disparate” impact because he lacked standing as an employee. Disparate impact includes…

The Trump Administration’s Department of Commerce recently removed gender identity and sexual orientation from the list of categories explicitly protected from discrimination.   Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said that although the exclusion of those categories does not affect LGBT employees at the Department,…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has accused JPMorgan Chase of violating the Civil Rights Act, stating that the company discriminates against male employees who ask for paternal leave.  The plaintiff, Derek Rotondo, applied for sixteen weeks of paternal leave when his wife was pregnant with their second child.  JPMorgan’s…