Passed in 1978, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make clear that the prohibition on sex discrimination in employment includes discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions. Thirty-five ...
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Read More »Angela Welfare was eight weeks pregnant when she told her manager at the American Airlines Freight Department at JFK airport that she wasn’t supposed to lift more than 10 pounds. Her manager told her that they didn’t have light duty ...
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Read More »The Second Circuit in a summary order, decided Aug. 27, held that a Title IX complaint does not allege that the school district was deliberately indifferent to the harassment, and therefore Title IX was not violated in KF ex rel. ...
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Read More »A recent settlement between the EEOC and the dating service It’s Just Lunch USA offers an example of how things can go awry when human resource professionals are not safe to report discrimination. The firm was charged with not hiring ...
Read More »This class action alleged that John Catsimatidis, chairman and CEO of Gristede’s Foods Inc., was personally liable under federal labor law for overtime and other labor violations. The district court said that Catsimatidis was the plaintiffs’ employer, and that he ...
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Read More »The Second Circuit in a summary order decided May 14. decided that the plaintiff’s attempt to turn a denial into an admission does not equate to direct evidence, Fischer v. City of New York, et al., 12- 3570- cv. Plaintiff ...
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Read More »A female employee for an international brokerage firm in New York who alleged that her office was a “boys’ club” and that she was fired after she rejected the chief executive officer’s sexual propositions has triable gender discrimination and retaliation ...
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Read More »Does the ADA require an employer to accommodate an employee whose disability makes him late? The plaintiff, a case manager for the City of New York Human Resource Administration, takes medication for his disability that makes him sluggish and drowsy. ...
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Read More »The Second Circuit has recently held that a four month time span between a plaintiff’s complaint and her denial of a spring manager position was sufficient to establish causation, because the start of the spring season was the first moment ...
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Read More »The EEOC has issued a new guidance on the issues of discrimination and retaliation in the workplace based on employees who experience domestic or dating violence, sexual assault or stalking. Title VII’s prohibition is discussed in two parts: I. Disparate ...
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Read More »If you live in NYC and have the New York City Human Rights Law to rely upon, you have a lesser burden in proving a hostile work environment-sexual harassment case. In essence, you have more civil rights due to the ...
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Read More »The Appellate Division, Second Department decided the case of Cheathem v. Ostrow, (2009-04453) on Nov. 21, holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in limiting the scope of cross-examination: At trial, the plaintiff testified that her employer, ...
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