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Be prepared to explain each promotion decision

07/01/2007

One of the most important factors in promotion discrimination cases is also one of the easiest to control. The courts may not care that your decisions on whom to promote were perfectly rational; they want proof that you used the same factors for each candidate, flawed or not …

Even casual temp workers may be employees for workers’ comp

07/01/2007

If you engage casual workers for short-term work, be aware that you may be their employer for workers’ compensation purposes. That’s why it is so important to check with your compensation carrier about coverage, so you won’t be left holding the bag …

When same manager hires and fires, it’s unlikely to be discrimination

07/01/2007

The New York Human Rights Law, like Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act, makes it illegal to fire an employee because of his or her race. Both laws also recognize that it’s unlikely that a manager who is aware of an employee’s race when hiring would turn around and fire the same employee because of race …

Lockheed Martin liable under federal law for engineer’s drowning

07/01/2007

The widow of a Lockheed Martin test engineer who drowned in Cayuga Lake when he fell from a company barge settled a lawsuit against the company for an undisclosed amount. The widow sued under the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act …

Nursing home to pay $900,000 in language-Based discrimination case

07/01/2007

Flushing Manor Geriatric Center Inc. in Queens will pay $900,000 to 29 Haitian and Jamaican employees for race discrimination and retaliation …

Construction firms not responsible for guard’s asphyxiation death

07/01/2007

A federal district court has ruled that Tom Allen Construction Company and general contractor Mears Group are not responsible for the death of a security guard at a Hunts Point construction site …

The shock jock heard ‘Round the world—And in NYPD, too

07/01/2007

It’s been called the “Imus virus”—people across the country repeating the infamous last words of radio shock jock Don Imus, always with equally dismal results. In Brooklyn, three female police officers filed a federal lawsuit against the New York City Police Department after a sergeant rallied them during roll call with “Stand up, hos.” …

New York

Be prepared to explain each promotion decision

Even casual temp workers may be employees for workers’ comp

When same manager hires and fires, it’s unlikely to be discrimination

Lockheed Martin liable under federal law for engineer’s drowning

Nursing home to pay $900,000 in language-Based discrimination case

Construction firms not responsible for guard’s asphyxiation death

The shock jock heard ‘Round the world—And in NYPD, too

Echoes of Virginia Tech

Dodging payroll tax a felony

Pioneering female firefighter loses discrimination suit

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