By: CoD_fsfe, Courtesy: Open Clip Art Library (http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/show_file.php?id=13925176815) Actually, it depends. 😉 Here’s how it works for non-federal-sector employees: An employee must file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within 180 calendar days from the day the discrimination took place. However, if your business operates…
Photo by Sabine Gausemeier from Pexels How easy is it? Easier than Sunday morning, which is easier than beating the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon. Fired after a DUI. I’m going to tell you about this case where an African-American man with alcoholism, sued his former employer for firing…
Image by Bokskapet from Pixabay Just ask a Detroit TV news anchor with 26 years of experience and 15 Michigan Emmys. Here’s more from Steve Neavling reporting here from the Detroit Metro Times: [A]n investigative reporter for WDIV-TV, said he was abruptly fired from the news station for a racial…
Joseph Williams [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThroughout much of the day yesterday, Twitter trended with news that Harvard University had rescinded the college admission of one of Parkland shooting survivors. For something the school just learned that he did two years ago. Here’s more from Joe Sterling reporting here…
Image Credit: Google Street View It doesn’t look so good if you are the defendant. Last week, a Mississippi federal court jury concluded that a strip club in Mississippi had discriminated against five black dancers. In total, the jury awarded the women $1.5 million in punitive damages, $1.68 million in…
I’ll be the first to admit that, if I were watching this video in real time, I would have missed it. Missed what? A Chicago Cubs fan flashing what the team determined was an ‘offensive hand gesture associated with racism’ on live tv. That fan has since been banned from…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay I live and work about 100 miles northeast of Baltimore, MD. I don’t have my finger on the pulse of everything that’s going on in the Charm City. However, I do know that the City’s 50th mayor, Catherine Pugh, had a bad run there…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/mobile-text-phone-sms-980030/) Here’s the thing. If you’re managers relax the rule for their direct reports, good luck trying to use that rule as a basis to terminate someone’s employment. Consider this recent Fourth Circuit opinion. It involves an African American employee — let’s call him ‘Plaintiff’ — who…
Uncredited [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsNot only that but two different employers disciplined the same dead person on the same day. Last Friday, I was on the road in Cleveland doing some anti-harassment training for managers and supervisors. Minutes before my second session, I glanced down at my phone to…
Public Domain, Link Many people forget that federal anti-discrimination law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, contemplates reinstatement of an employee as a remedy for discrimination. But, before I get to that, I want to thank everyone who responded to yesterday’s blog post. If I did a…