Paula Deen, a successful celebrity chef, has succeeded in getting the discrimination charges against her thrown out – but not before the negative publicity severely damaged her reputation. U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. agreed with Deen that the employee filing charges had no standing
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After filing a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), most parties are offered the opportunity to try to resolve their dispute through EEOC mediation. At LeBlanc Law & Mediation, we encourage clients to give this mediation process a chance, because for many it
Read more →Back in December of 2012, the Iowa Supreme Court made national news in Nelson v. James H. Knight DDS, P.C., when it held that a termination based on being too physically attractive was not illegal sex discrimination. Last week, the Court issued a second opinion in the
Read more →Last month, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that raises the standard of proof for workers filing claims of retaliation against their employers. In the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar decision, the Court specifies that the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which lowered
Read more →Two U.S. Supreme Court cases decided in the late 1990’s – (Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998) and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998) – established that employers were vicariously liable for the severe and pervasive harassment of employees by
Read more →Employment discrimination on the basis of race has been in the news this week, as Battle v. Hurley Medical Center, out of Michigan, caught the attention of some major news organizations. The complaint alleges that Tonya Battle was a nurse in the NICU at Hurley Medical Center,
Read more →An article in the New York Times this week may have employers reevaluating their social media policies. The National Labor Relations Board has handed down a number of rulings, the latest just last month, that have companies rewriting their social media rules. The rulings make many broad
Read more →On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that employers are not required to offer reasonable accommodations for pregnancy. Or at least, it appears that way if you don’t read the fine print. Peggy Young was working as a driver for UPS when
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