Jury Awards Plaintiff $3.1 Million Verdict In Defamation Case Against Target
A South Carolina jury recently awarded a woman $3.1 million verdict in her defamation case against Target. The woman was shopping at Target when she was confronted by Target employees who accused her of using a counterfeit $100 bill to pay for her merchandise. The store ...
Offensive Conduct That Is Not Sex-Specific May Violate Title VII
The Ninth Circuit has held in a recent case that "offensive conduct that is not facially sex-specific nonetheless may violate Title VII if there is ...
Connecticut Law Prohibits Discrimination Based On Sexual Orientation
Connecticut's anti-discrimination law prohibits discrimination in employment against any employee who is gay, lesbian or bisexual or who is identifed ...
New Legislation Improves Protection Of Disabled Workers Under The ADA
Millions of Americans with diseases or impairments such as diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease, cancer and carpal tunnel syndrome will be protected from ...
Bullying in the Connecticut workplace is not illegal. We receive many phone calls and emails from Connecticut workers who are being verbally abused ...
on September 22, 2008 6:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) What is a hostile work environment? A work environment may be found to be ...
Two new categories of FMLA leave were created by a 2008 amendment: Injured Service Member Leave. Employees who are the spouse, parent, child or "next ...