The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal law that provides unpaid protected leave to employees for covered medical or family reasons. These are important rights that employees enjoy, but they don’t come automatically. Employers have plenty of responsibility in ensuring their employees can take advantage of these rights. But it’s still up […]
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Employment discrimination can occur at any time, even before someone becomes an employee. This can occur during the job application process, although it usually goes unnoticed. If illegal discrimination results in a job rejection, the employer rarely provides the real reason for choosing another candidate. Instead, the employer will use some generic language thanking them
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On October 7, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled its racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against Chicago Meat Authority, Inc. (CMA) for $1.1 million plus various forms of injunctive relief. What happened in this case and why is its settlement somewhat notable? EEOC v. Chicago Meat Authority, Inc. In February 2018, the
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On October 6, 2021, a Los Angeles jury concluded that a Coca-Cola bottler heir’s company must pay out $7 million in damages. Of this total, $6 million were for punitive damages and $1 million for economic and non-economic damages. The plaintiff in this case was a former employee who claims he was wrongfully terminated. This
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On October 4, 2021, a jury in San Francisco federal court awarded Owen Diaz (Diaz) $136.9 million in damages for the race-based harassment he endured working for Tesla, Inc. (Tesla). This is one of the largest individual plaintiff awards for racial harassment cases in the United States. There are likely thousands of racial discrimination employment
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