Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with the issue of what does an employer need know about a job applicant or employee that would make them liable for a violation of the Civil Rights Act, where the employer lacked actual knowledge of the individuals religious...
Minority firefighters had sued the Buffalo fire department for a pattern and practice of discrimination that had disadvantaged minorities in their ability to obtain jobs and promotions, and the courts had imposed quotas and other remedial efforts on the...
A reverse discrimination case is returning to the lower court after the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, found there were factual questions that needed to be answered before the trial court could dismiss the action.The reverse discrimination case...
Gender discrimination has long been prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991. And typically, when an employment discrimination lawsuit is brought, the plaintiff's are women, who allege various machinations by their employer to place them at a...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported this week the statistics for workplace discrimination cases it was involved with during fiscal year 2014. While discrimination cases overall declined, the number of retaliation cases increased to a...
A 32-year-old New York man who was fired from a Lowe's location in August 2014 after 11 years of employment is suing the company. According to him, he was fired in retaliation for testifying in support of a gay employee who sued the same store for harassment in 2012....
A former professor at Long Island University filed an age discrimination complaint with the Division of Human Rights after he was terminated from his long-held position. The 87-year-old man claims that he and two other elderly professors were fired by LIU without...
According to court reports, a New York man who was a former steel employee has been awarded around 4 million for work-related harassment. The ruling came into effect two years after the man was originally allocated 25 million in compensation by the federal court jury...
Race discrimination occurs when an applicant or a worker is treated differently because of their ethnic origin, race or color. Federal laws prohibit discrimination in the workplace in New York and every other state in the country. Employees could help protect...
In a move that will provide greater workplace protections for employees in New York and nationwide, the U.S. Attorney General released a memo on Dec. 18 announcing that the Justice Department will now interpret federal law to explicitly shield transgender people from...
