Author: Brad Dixon

A termination letter can become a vocabulary quiz once litigation starts. Every changed adjective gets its own exhibit. TL;DR: An employer defeated race and age discrimination claims because its explanations consistently described the same policy violations. Differences in wording and minor factual discrepancies did not show that the stated reason

My name is Eric Meyer, a founding partner at Pierson Ferdinand LLP. You may know me as the guy who turns someone else’s workplace disaster into your morning reading. If you’ve ever read a post here and thought, “Please tell me our managers aren’t doing that,” we’re practically kindred spirits

If you want the EEOC’s attention, do this: send an email — in red highlight — seeking “ONLY H1B” applicants. It’s one of the allegations in a new federal lawsuit, part of the agency’s push against anti-American bias. TL;DR: The EEOC sued an IT staffing agency under Title VII, alleging

The university kept paying its softball coach during an investigation. Its no-contact order also stopped her from teaching, and the suspension became a $300,000 sex bias judgment. TL;DR: A jury found sex motivated a university’s paid suspension of its women’s softball coach, and an appeals court upheld the $300,000 judgment.