Protecting Employee Rights
Although there is an ongoing debate about whether sexual orientation is a protected class subject to protection from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation under federal anti-discrimination laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there is at least one area of federal
The Indiana General Assembly is currently debating the passage of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”). As it is currently constructed, the RFRA reads, in pertinent part: “A state action, or an action taken by an individual based on state action, may not substantially
On April 21, 2014, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed a race discrimination case brought by an African-American employee against his former employer. In Douthit v. TC Heartland LLC, the employee claimed that he had been transferred from his
The question of just how anonymous some companies’ complaint procedures are is being raised by an interesting case recently filed in a New York federal court. According to an article in the New York Daily News, Gerard Giraldo sent what he believed to be an
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced a settlement in a pregnancy discrimination claim filed by the EEOC against J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. The lawsuit alleged that a female job applicant was denied a position in J.C. Penney’s hair salon, which was