Kia Motors has advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise.” One of their Human Resources Managers took this saying to heart in choosing a very surprising method of expressing her displeasure with her employer. ...
An employee is ordinarily protected from adverse employment action when seeking evidence to support a discrimination claim but what happens when that employee breaks the law when seeking that information? After 16 years with a ...
Believe it or not, the Minnesota Supreme Court recently explained that a Minnesota employer may be required to knowingly violate federal immigration law by employing an undocumented worker in order to avoid liability under state ...
Here’s a first – a federal appeals court has allowed an employee to sue his employer’s attorney for arranging to have immigration officials come to the employee’s deposition to take him into custody for deportation. José Arnulfo Arias, ...
Is retaliation illegal if the employer is unaware that the target employee is protected? Often, the answer is yes due to failure to inquire further but in this unusual case, the supervisor’s ignorance resulted in a free pass for the ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has finalized its Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues, and employers can now look forward to more claims and increasingly aggressive government enforcement. We wrote in February when the Guidance ...
We often read that the coach of a losing team gets a public “vote of confidence” from team management, only to be fired a week or two later after the team drops a few more games. This may ...
The new Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) poses a threat of more retaliation claims under federal discrimination laws (I.e. Title VII, the ADA and the ADEA) and increased liability for ...
