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The employer offered him $400,000 to stay. He still claimed that workplace stress, microaggressions, and an abrasive executive amounted to race discrimination.
TL;DR: A federal appeals court affirmed summary judgment for an employer, holding that an extra safety audit, continued safety monitoring, and workplace stress did not harm ...
His doctors cleared him to return to work. The railroad kept him away from moving trains for five years.
TL;DR: A federal appeals court upheld summary judgment for an employer that barred a railroad conductor from returning after a stroke because of the risk of a future seizure. Although the employee’s doctors cleared him, the empl...
The employee asked for help completing his work. Months later, the unfinished work became the reason for firing him.
TL;DR: A federal appeals court rejected an employee’s intentional disability discrimination claim because the decisionmaker did not know about his disabilities. But it revived his failure-to-accommodate claim because HR and ...
Browse the headlines about DEI-training backlash lawsuits and they usually go one way: a white employee gets offended and sues over it. This one, initiated by the EEOC, ain’t that at all.
TL;DR: The EEOC has sued a St. Louis university, alleging it retaliated against a Black senior program manager who complained that mandatory diversity t...
Workplace profanity was business as usual, right up until it accompanied a complaint about racism.
TL;DR: An employee used repeated profanity while complaining to his supervisor about alleged race discrimination. The employer fired him eight days later, but a federal appeals court revived his Section 1981 retaliation claim because ...