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Discrimination / Harassment

Winston-Salem Dairy Queen faces harassment charges

02/24/2012
The manager of a Winston-Salem Dairy Queen restaurant thought he was getting rid of a problem employee when he fired Chastity Hill-Cox. His problems were only beginning. The EEOC and Hill-Cox are suing Dairy Queen for sexual harassment …

What turkey fired the HIV-positive employee?

02/24/2012
Butterball, the Garner-based turkey processor, faces EEOC disability discrimination charges after it allegedly tolerated harassment against an HIV-positive employee and then fired her after she complained.

Workers’ comp doesn’t cover supervisor sexual harassment

02/24/2012
When a supervisor sexually harasses a subordinate, the subordinate has a potential Title VII lawsuit. However, she does not have a workers’ compensation claim.

Matrix workers clean up with EEOC bias settlement

02/22/2012
Matrix Integrated Facility Management, one of the Philadelphia area’s largest commercial janitorial firms, will pay $450,000 to 15 former employees to settle EEOC race discrimination and retaliation charges.

Panera Bread gets double helping of bias litigation

02/22/2012
A Panera Bread franchisee faces an additional lawsuit charging racial discrimination in the wake of a manager’s suit that claims he was fired for refusing to follow a racist directive.

No promotion postings? You’re courting a bias suit

02/22/2012
Employers that don’t post internal promotion opportunities are risking unnecessary lawsuits. The fact is, when jobs aren’t posted, employees can sue over the lost opportunity to apply.

Employee acting as her own lawyer? Prepare for a long slog through the legal system

02/22/2012
Ten years of litigation has finally come to an end now that a federal appeals court has tossed the last claims of an employee who acted as her own lawyer.

Court: False harassment complaint is grounds for termination

02/22/2012
A recent state appellate court decision offers clarification about how employers can handle an employee’s false or exaggerated sexual harassment complaints.

Jury awards almost $865,000 to Muslim security guard

02/22/2012
A San Francisco jury has awarded $865,000 to a Muslim security guard who says his co-workers and super­visors called him a terrorist and an al-Qaida member.

Drivers, forklift operators win $17.7 million in age-bias suit

02/22/2012
Six Los Angeles-area soda company employees will share a whopping $17.7 million in damages awarded after they successfully sued the Dr Pepper Snapple Group and related companies for age discrimination.