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What Baggage Does The Employment Attorney Carry?

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Litigation

For employers, there are a lot of things within your control. You can control how to discipline an employee and when to take certain steps including termination. You can control how much severance you offer that employee and whether to offer severance at all.  But there is one thing that employers can’t control that can… Continue Reading

U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Answering Questions in Internal Investigations Is Protectable Under Title VII Retaliation Provisions

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Discrimination & Harassment

In an unanimous 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled Title VII protects workers from retaliation after the employee responds to questions in an internal investigation.  The Court held that Title VII protects those workers who speak out on discrimination during company-ordered investigations, not simply those investigations that arise from an actual discrimination claim.  The case of Crawford… Continue Reading

Jury Awards $4M+ to Employee in Retaliation Case

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Human Resources (HR) Compliance, Laws and Regulations, Litigation

Late last week (when, of course, I was out of the office), word came down about another large verdict in an employment law case in Connecticut.  The verdict, composed of $1M in compensatory damages and $3M in punitive damages in Tucker v. Journal Register Co. was first reported by the Connecticut Post last Friday here.  (H/T Jottings… Continue Reading

Court: Employee’s Firing After Expressing Reluctance to Participate as a Witness in CHRO Hearing May Be Retaliation

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC, Discrimination & Harassment, Litigation

For retaliation cases, an employee’s active participation in another person’s discrimination case has been viewed, in the past, as the threshold to be a "protected activity" under Title VII’s retaliation clause.  That has been watered down in the Second Circuit in recent years.  A new District Court decision today has concluded that simply expressing a… Continue Reading