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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1964 and aimed at preventing discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, and religion. Title VII has been subsequently extended to discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and sexual stereotypes and to prohibit sexual harassment. Title VII applies to all employers with fifteen or more employees including private employers, state and local governments, and educational institutions. less -

Equinox Jury Verdict Serves as Cautionary Tale for Employers

Fox Rothschild LLP on 6/12/2023

At the end of a trial last month, a federal jury found Equinox Holdings Inc. (Equinox) liable for maintaining a hostile work environment and discriminating against a former employee on the basis of race and gender in...more

California Employment Law Notes - January 2021

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 2/1/2021

Bank Employee Who Was Harassed By A Customer Can Proceed With Sexual Harassment Claim - Christian v. Umpqua Bank, 2020 WL 7777882 (9th Cir. 2020) - Jennifer Christian, a former employee of Umpqua Bank, alleged she was...more

$13M UCLA Case Exposes Calif. Employment Litigation Flaws

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 5/14/2020

In Pinter-Brown v. Regents of the University of California, the California Court of Appeal’s Second Appellate District recently reversed a blockbuster $13 million judgment that was entered against UCLA in favor of one of its...more

Web Exclusive: November 2019: The Top 12 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 12/16/2019

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Sunday May Still Be Sacred: Texas Jury Sides with Employee Who Chose Church Service Over Work

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/13/2019

If an employee misses work to attend church on Sunday morning and the company subsequently fires her, is that religious discrimination? A jury in Texas recently said yes and awarded the plaintiff close to $350,000. The...more

Employers may be liable for harassment by a non-employee

McAfee & Taft on 3/29/2019

“Claims of sexual harassment typically involve the behavior of fellow employees. But not always,” said a federal appeals court in Gardner v. CLC of Pascagoula, LLC. The case shows employers must take employee complaints of...more

Failure to Provide Employee With Adequate Pumping Breaks and Accommodations Led to $1.5 Million Verdict

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/22/2019

In March 2010, as part of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was amended to require most employers to provide nonexempt employees: ..“reasonable break time for an employee to...more

Jury Okays Firing Transgender Employee for Negative Glassdoor Review

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 11/1/2018

On October 29, 2018, a San Francisco federal jury unanimously found that a Silicon Valley tech company did not commit unlawful retaliation by firing a transgender employee who accused the company of discrimination in a...more

Seventh Circuit Says Employer Liable for Customer Stalking Employee

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 9/26/2018

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from workplace harassment. As most employers know, these protections apply not only to behavior by co-workers and supervisors but also to harassment by customers,...more

Fifth Circuit Upholds Jury Verdict in Constructive Discharge Case due to Employer’s “Shifting Reasons” for Its Personnel Decisions

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/30/2018

In Delaronde v. Legend Classic Homes, Ltd., No. 17-20027 (January 18, 2018), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s denial of an employer’s post-verdict motion for judgment as a matter of law, finding...more

Prior Harassment Warning Used to Attribute Knowledge of Subsequent Conduct to Employer

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 1/18/2018

Under Title VII, employers are only liable for an employee’s – as opposed to a supervisor’s – sexual harassment of a co-worker if it knew or should have known of such conduct. Last month in an unpublished decision, the Second...more

An Employer’s Duty To Accommodate Not So-Common Religious Practices

Troutman Pepper on 11/22/2017

Q. An employee has requested that the company give her an accommodation due to a religious practice I have never heard of. Do we have to comply with this request? A. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects...more

Mining company doomed in resurrected 'mark of the beast' lawsuit

Burr & Forman on 8/8/2017

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all South Carolina employers) recently decided a religious accommodation case in which a jury awarded a former employee more than half a million dollars. The Equal...more

Fourth Circuit Affirms "Mark of the Beast" Religious Discrimination Verdict

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 6/19/2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes North Carolina and South Carolina) affirmed a $600,000 jury verdict in favor of a West Virginia coal miner who refused to use a new biometric hand scanner installed by his...more

“Mark Of The Beast” Workplace Concerns Lead To Half-Million Dollar Verdict

Fisher Phillips on 6/15/2017

Here’s some advice you probably didn’t think you needed, employers: you should avoid, at all costs, giving or threatening to give your employees the biblical Mark of the Beast. And if they think you are doing so, you should...more

EEOC Wins Jury Verdict in Sexual Harassment Case against Costco

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 12/23/2016

Failure to Intervene Against Harassing Customer Created Hostile Work Environment, EEOC Charged - CHICAGO - A federal jury has awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages to a former employee of Costco Wholesale, Inc. who...more

Menomonie Restaurant Owner in Contempt of Court

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/31/2015

Wisconsin Company Held in Contempt for Failure to Provide Information and Pay EEOC's Attorney's Fees - MADISON, WISCONSIN - North Broadway Holdings, Inc., owner of a restaurant previously known as Sparx Restaurant, and...more

Religious Accommodations: May Be Required by Law, Unless the Request is Unlawful

Franczek P.C. on 2/10/2015

Several weeks ago, the EEOC secured a jury verdict of $150,000 in compensatory damages against an employer for failure to accommodate an employee’s religious objection to a workplace rule. But last week, the Sixth Circuit...more

Religious Objections to Biometric Scanning: Jury Verdict for Employee Is a Cautionary Tale for Employers

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/31/2015

A Virginia federal jury recently awarded $150,000 to a miner who refused on religious grounds to use his employer’s biometric hand scanner that was installed to track attendance. Such scanners read each person’s unique hand...more

EEOC Wins Jury Verdict of More than $20 Million for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 5/2/2013

Florida Travel Agency Subjected Women to Verbal and Physical Abuse and Disrespect, Manager Fired for Complaining, Federal Agency Charged - TAMPA, Fla. - A federal jury has returned a unanimous verdict awarding a total...more

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