Discrimination, Internal Investigations

Diversity Driven Derivative Suits: Culture Wars Come to the Boardroom

DarrowEverett LLP on 9/26/2023

Traditionally deployed to protect a corporation from its board’s imprudent investment or financial decision-making, in recent years shareholders have taken to bringing derivative actions on a corporation’s behalf for its...more

The Stale Harassment Complaint: Coal In Your Stocking?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/20/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The natural inclination is to ignore attempts to dredge up claims of harassment that happened long ago. But no harassment claim is too old to investigate. Having strong anti-harassment policies and...more

Better 4 You Breakfast Settles EEOC Lawsuit for Retaliatory Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/25/2017

School Meals Provider Will Pay $62,500 to Settle Retaliation Claims and Provide Training to Employees on Retaliation - PHOENIX - A Commerce, Calif.-based company that provides prepared meals to schools has agreed to...more

ABL Management to Pay $35,000 to Settle Retaliation Lawsuit with EEOC

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/11/2017

Company Fired Panama City Employee After He Reported Male Supervisor Sexually Harassed Him, Federal Agency Charged - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - ABL Management, Inc., a Baton Rouge, La.-based food management company, will pay...more

Rite Way to Settle EEOC Retaliation Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 3/27/2017

Federal Agency Wins $70,000 for Worker Who Was Fired for Helping With Sexual Harassment Investigation - GULFPORT, Miss. - Rite Way Service, Inc., a former Alabama corporation that provided janitorial cleaning services to...more

Updated EEOC Retaliation Guidance Suggests Scrutiny for Internal Investigation Practices

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/8/2016

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission takes an expansive position on protection given to persons who make internal complaints about discrimination in bad faith in updated guidance on retaliation law....more

Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update Volume 6, Issue 4

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 10/15/2015

Five social media law issues to discuss with your clients - The explosive growth of social media has clients facing legal questions that didn’t even exist a few short years ago. Helping your clients navigate this...more

Third Circuit Issues Employer-Friendly Ruling in Discrimination and Retaliation Case

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 8/21/2015

On August 12, 2015, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a precedential opinion in Jones v. SEPTA, a discrimination and retaliation claim brought by a former employee of the Philadelphia-area transit agency. The Third...more

Workplace Investigations

Snell & Wilmer on 7/9/2015

If you are an employer or HR professional and have not had to conduct a workplace discrimination investigation, consider yourself lucky, or possibly naïve. At some point every employer will be confronted with the employee...more

Internal Investigations — Assessing Witness Credibility

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/3/2015

As experienced investigators know, an investigation into allegations of harassment, discrimination or other misconduct may lead to a so-called “he said/she said” scenario, possibly leaving the investigator in a quandary as to...more

Don’t Make Promises That You Cannot Keep: Greenwich Silver Shield Association v. Town of Greenwich, the FOIA and Discrimination...

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 9/23/2014

Investigations in the public sector confront the competing demands of employee privacy rights and the public’s “right to know” under the Freedom of Information Act [“FOIA”]. Another decision by the Freedom of Information...more

Investigating Employee Complaints – An Employer’s Double Bind

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 1/10/2014

An employee, having been notified of his impending termination, complains to his employer of discrimination. A human resources professional retained by the employer to investigate the complaint concludes that the employee...more

Fenwick Employment Brief - September 2013: Wrongful Termination Claims Fail Where Employer Thoroughly Investigated Work...

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/24/2013

In Kodwavi v. Intercontinental Hotels Group Resources, Inc., a federal district court in California determined that a hotel employee was not entitled to have his claims of national origin discrimination and retaliation go to...more

Fenwick Employment Brief - September 2013: Findings that Employee Violated Company Policies were not an Admission of Legal...

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/19/2013

In Oliver v. Microsoft Corp., a federal district court in California ruled that Microsoft’s internal determination that the plaintiff’s supervisor violated the company’s discrimination and retaliation policies was not an...more

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