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How Do You Cast Doubt on the Employer’s Reasons for Its Actions Against You?

To establish a successful discrimination case, a plaintiff must take several steps. Antidiscrimination law presents a number of issues that must be proven before a case is decided in the plaintiff’s favor. Case in point: a Texas’ woman’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) case was recently resurrected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

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This Week in Family Responsibilities Discrimination

In the news and on many people’s minds this week was the Supreme Court’s historic decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marry and striking down bans on same-sex marriage across the country. But how will this decision affect family responsibilities discrimination? We look at this landmark decision

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This Week in Family Responsibilities Discrimination

This week in family responsibilities discrimination, there was a lot of coverage of legislative efforts—both federal and state—to protect women from employment discrimination. There were also articles about insurance and paid leave as well as discussions about interesting pregnancy discrimination cases. State Efforts to Pass Reproductive Choice Discrimination Laws A number of states have attempted

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This Week in Family Responsibilities Discrimination

This week in family responsibilities discrimination news, we reflected on the past, worked to make repairs in the present, and revealed how the future will (hopefully) look. Reflecting on the Past 50 years of Griswold This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Griswold v. Connecticut. The landmark opinion made it

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This Week in Family Responsibilities Discrimination

Despite the evidence that workplace support for families creates more satisfied and more loyal employees, many employers still feel that employees with family responsibilities are an inconvenience and respond by treating those employees unfairly or even firing them. This week, a number of pregnancy discrimination cases were discussed in the news. There was also a jury

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This Week in Family Responsibilities Discrimination

There were three big wins for family responsibilities discrimination to report on this week: 1. Florida Adds Pregnancy to Characteristics of Illegal Discrimination Under Civil Rights Law About one year ago, the Florida Supreme Court held that the state’s discrimination law’s prohibition on sex discrimination “includes discrimination based on pregnancy, which is a natural condition

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Can My Employer Fire Me for Blowing the Whistle by Talking to the Press About Possible Fraud?

A former employee of the Philadelphia School District has been awarded $318,520 in a federal lawsuit alleging his suspension and firing violated his rights, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Though the jury found that the School Reform Commission, the body running the school system, didn’t violate state whistleblower laws when it took actions against the

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