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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Good Reasons Sometimes Win: 5th Circuit Cites “Unprofessional Behavior” of Plaintiff in Dismissing ADEA Claim

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/1/2019

Add this case to your “Be Sure to Document Your Non-Discriminatory Reasons” file. An employee doing bad things lost on summary judgment in an employment discrimination action, even though she alleged that the company did not...more

Federal Court Rules That Employer Is Not Entitled To EEOC’s Pre-Suit Materials

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/8/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: After a federal magistrate judge in California ordered the EEOC to provide written discovery responses relative to the substance its pre-suit investigation of a sex discrimination charge in EEOC v. Chipotle...more

Be Careful What You Say: The danger of the charge of discrimination

McAfee & Taft on 4/18/2019

It’s tempting for employers to shrug off the allegations contained in a charge of discrimination or similar agency filing – viewing them as unfounded, unsupported and self-serving. Or worse, an employer may attack the...more

Supreme Court Limits EEOC Subpoena Power

Fisher Phillips on 4/4/2017

In a 7 to 1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that courts of appeals should largely defer to lower courts’ decisions when policing subpoenas issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). By...more

Fourth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment against EEOC in Background Check Suit

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 2/24/2015

Last week, in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) v. Freeman, No. 13-2365 (4th Cir. Feb. 20, 2105), the Fourth Circuit affirmed the award of summary judgment against the EEOC in its suit alleging that the...more

N.D. Ill. Denies Employer Summary Judgment On Retaliation Claim, Stressing Shifting Explanation For Discharge

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense on 11/12/2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently ruled that a retaliation claim survived summary judgment because of the “convincing mosaic” of evidence of retaliation the Plaintiff presented,...more

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