Category: Human Resources

An employee’s attempt to end fifty years of discrimination-law precedent went nowhere on appeal. But, two of the three judges who rejected it wrote separately to say they’d take another case just to do it. TL;DR: A federal appeals court affirmed summary judgment for the employer on race discrimination, retaliation,

A supervisor swore in an affidavit that he had no idea an employee was disabled. His own meeting notes said otherwise, and that contradiction just cost a Texas community college its win. TL;DR: A federal appeals court revived a former college employee’s disability discrimination, disability retaliation, and FMLA retaliation claims

One racial slur wasn’t enough to put a company on notice. A federal appeals court explained why and upheld the jury’s verdict for the employer. TL;DR: A federal appeals court affirmed a jury verdict for an employer in a race-based hostile work environment case, holding that one earlier incident involving

An employer told the EEOC one story to get a discrimination charge dismissed as too late. It told the court a different story to win summary judgment. The judge noticed. TL;DR: A magistrate judge recommended denying summary judgment on the EEOC’s age discrimination claim against a meat processing company, finding

Roughly one in ten of a railroad’s train and engine employees marked off using FMLA leave on Christmas Day. The railroad ran that spike through an algorithm, then a hearing, then a dishonesty finding, and a federal court just said a jury needs to check that whole chain. TL;DR: A

She reported the harassment and lost her job. Her supervisor testified that the man she reported wasn’t disciplined; he got training instead. TL;DR: The Seventh Circuit revived an HR manager’s sex discrimination and retaliation claims after she was fired following months of reporting sexist conduct by other managers, holding a