It seems a lawyer in New York sat by while his client lied about whether she was working at a deposition. When the court found out, it showed its displeasure by sanctioning the lawyer $15,000. Have a great Memorial Day holiday.
Salary discrimination, experts and more
Judge Michael Davis of the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis recently spent 35 pages sorting through various issues in a race, national origin and age discrimination case brought by a Nigerian-born professor against St. Cloud State University in Onyiah v. St. Cloud State University. Ultimately, Judge Davis granted summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims. Without providing [...]
Is this really the best use of EEOC resources?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Starbucks Coffee Company for allegedly denying a reasonable accommodation to a barista with dwarfism at its El Paso café and then firing her because of her disability. According to the EEOC’s suit, Elsa Sallard has a physical impairment, dwarfism. She was hired by Starbucks to work in a [...]
Pitfalls for the unwary in drafting arbitration agreements
A decision last week by Judge Ann Montgomery in RSM McGladrey v. Epp should be required reading for all attorneys who draft employment agreements, especially those with non-competition and arbitration provisions. The defendants were managing directors of RSM, working out of its New York office, specializing in RSM’s health care practice. As a condition of [...]
Beware of those retaliation claims!
As any defense lawyer can tell you, retaliation cases are some of the most problematic to deal with. Further evidence of that arrived this week with news that a jury awarded $361,000 to a former employee of G&K Services for workers’ compensation retaliation. Dubiel was injured on the job in a car accident. He [...]