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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 -

Los Angeles Jury Hands $155 Million Holiday Gift to Fired Insurance Executive

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 12/20/2021

As we recently reported, California juries continue to award massive verdicts to employees with alarming regularity. And, just in time for the holidays, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury upped the ante on Thursday, handing a...more

EEOC Sues Geisinger Health and Affiliates for Disability Discrimination and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/1/2021

Health System Failed to Reasonably Accommodate Class of Workers with Disabilities, Federal Agency Charges - PHILADELPHIA – Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation doing business as Geisinger Health System,...more

EEOC Sues Lodging Lane Hospitality for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

Hotel Manager Sexually Harassed Female Housekeeper for Months and Then Fired Her for Complaining About It, Federal Agency Charges - OXFORD, MS – Lodging Lane Hospitality, doing business as Home2 Suites and owned and...more

EEOC Sues Suisan Company, Ltd for Racial Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

Food Distributor Condoned Racial Harassment and Retaliated Against African American Employee for Complaining, Federal Agency Charges - HONOLULU – Suisan Company, Limited (Suisan), a food distributor on the Big Island of...more

Pinterest’s Former Chief Operating Officer Levies Claims Of Gender Bias Against Company

Fisher Phillips on 8/19/2020

Former Pinterest Chief Operating Officer and top ranking female executive Françoise Brougher just filed a 17-page complaint in San Francisco Superior Court against Pinterest alleging a toxic work environment that allowed...more

City of Baldwin Park Hit with $7 Million Sex Discrimination Verdict

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 4/2/2019

Just another day in paradise in Los Angeles… Unless you happen to be an employer. Continuing the recent spate of multi-million dollar verdicts, an LA jury awarded a former police officer $7 million on her sex discrimination...more

Fast Food Chain Turns $626 Loss Into Nearly $8 Million

Flaster Greenberg PC on 9/24/2018

When Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. fired store manager Jeanette Ortiz, accusing her of stealing $626 in cash from the safe, it could never have expected its minimal theft loss to balloon into a nearly $8 million jury verdict...more

Law @ Work Employer Newsletter - The Savvy Employer’s Guide to Legal Developments & Quirks that Affect the Workplace

Flaster Greenberg PC on 9/14/2018

Welcome to the third edition of the Law @ Work Employer Newsletter. For those of you who read the Law @ Work blog, you know that the blog offers an in-depth analysis of important legal developments. This Newsletter fills in...more

The More You Know... Or Others Think You Know: Fifth Circuit Finds Decision-maker Had Knowledge to Constitute Retaliation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/7/2017

The Fifth Circuit has issued another opinion in the continuing saga of Jackson State University and its past athletic director, Dr. Vivian Fuller—this one about retaliation against a witness. To refresh everyone’s memory: A...more

EEOC Sues IHOP Chain for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/22/2017

Chain of Franchises Subjected Employees to Sexual Harassment and Retaliation, Federal Agency Charges - LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Several franchisees of the popular IHOP restaurant chain in Nevada and New York violated federal law...more

EEOC Sued Diversified Maintenance Systems for Race Discrimination and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/6/2017

Tampa-Based Janitorial Service Provider Rejected African-Americans for Jobs and Punished Black Employee for Opposing Discrimination, Federal Agency Charges - BALTIMORE - Janitorial Service Provider Diversified Maintenance...more

Eight-Figure Jury Award In California Highlights Risks Of Retaliation Claims

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/23/2017

A jury in California awarded $22.4 million in punitive damages to a former sales manager of Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., a medical device company, based on a finding that his employer retaliated against him under both the...more

EEOC Sues Fracking Company for Race-Based Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/26/2017

Downhole Technology Fired a Black Employee for Complaining About Racial Intimidation With a KKK Hood, Federal Agency Charges - HOUSTON - A manufacturer of equipment used in hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") violated...more

EEOC Sues Discovering Hidden Hawaii Tours for Male-on-Male Sexual Harassment

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/16/2017

Company PresidentSexually Harassed Male Employees for More Than a Decade, Federal Agency Charges - HONOLULU, Hawaii - Three related Hawaii tour companies -- Discovering Hidden Hawaii Tours, Inc., Hawaii Tours and...more

Puerto Rico Issues Comprehensive Labor Law Reform

FordHarrison on 2/8/2017

On January 26, 2017, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Ricardo Roselló, signed into law the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act (the “Act”). The Act represents the first significant and comprehensive labor law reform to occur in...more

Ex-GC Awarded $8 Million For Retaliatory Firing

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/7/2017

A California federal jury awarded Sanford Wadler, former General Counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories, $8 million for his claims against his former employer under the whistleblower provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the...more

Kansas City Gives St. Louis A Run For The Money–Literally

Mayer Brown on 1/3/2017

St. Louis and Kansas City have long been cross-state baseball rivals. Who can forget the 1985 I-70 World Series? So it is hardly surprising that on the eve of St. Louis being named by the American Tort Reform Association...more

Ninth Circuit Substantially Reduces Punitive Award Against Walgreen

Mayer Brown on 10/17/2016

Things have been quiet in the world of punitive damages for the last few months, but two recent decisions substantially reducing punitive awards under the BMW/State Farm factors warrant mention. My colleague Miriam Nemetz...more

Updates On Some Cases About Which We Have Reported

Mayer Brown on 6/17/2016

There have been subsequent developments in several cases about which we have posted in recent months. On April 27, 2016, the California Supreme Court denied review in Casey v. Kaiser Gypsum Co., a case in which the...more

Employer Ordered to Pay Whistleblower $100,000 Punitive Damages

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/13/2015

In a recent Federal District Court OSHA 11(c) retaliation case, Perez v. Sandpoint Gas N Go, 14-cv-357 (9-29-2015), Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill provides a strong reminder that the Courts will protect from retaliation...more

Retail Industry Update - December 2011, No. 4: “I’ll Get You For This” - Avoiding Charges Of Workers’ Comp Retaliation By Ed...

Fisher Phillips on 12/2/2011

In October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a jury’s decision that a package delivery company had retaliated against one of its workers for filing a workers’ compensation claim. Fortunately for the...more

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