The facts in the case of Thompson V North American Stainless, LP 562 U.S._ (2011) are fairly straightforward. The petitioner in this case, Eric Thompson, was seemingly fired from his job at North American Stainless (NAS) because his fiancée, Miriam Regalado filed a sexual discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). His suit was filed under Title VII claiming that his dismissal was retaliation for his fiancée’s charge. (Pagnattaro, Cahoy, Magid, Reed, & Shedd, n.d.)…
In her charge with EEOC she claimed "I have been discriminated against because of my sex, female and retaliated against for complaining of discrimination in violation of Title VII section 704(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended." (EEOC)…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, forbids “an employer to … discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s … sex.” Civil Rights Act, 1964. In Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, the court held that “a plaintiff may establish a violation of Title VII by proving that discrimination based on sex has created a hostile or abusive work environment.” Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (US 1986). A hostile work environment is created when the environment at work creates anxiety so severe as to result in an alteration of the terms and conditions of employment. Hailey Course Pack, p. 140. The burden to prove such an environment was created rests on the plaintiff. The plaintiff must prove that they belong to a protected class; were subject to unwelcomed harassment; the harassment is based on sex, meaning it is not happening to members of the opposite sex; and the harassment alters the conditions of employment. Hailey Course Pack, p. 140. In this case, the court will evaluate whether Black has sufficient evidence to prove her claim of a hostile work environment.…
Plaintiff worked for the Defendant in several positions. The Plaintiff alleges twelve different incidents occurred where she was treated differently than her white co-workers. These includes incidents such as dress code violations that white employees did not receive. Another involved her supervisor advising the Plaintiff not to steal anything. There were other race-based comments such as a supervisor referring to the Plaintiff’s hair as “nappy.”…
Dr. Takem uses the information gained in sessions with her patient Sam to charge an upgraded fee. Prior to learning about Sam’s inheritance the fee schedule was $45/session. After learning the additional information about the sizeable inheritance, Dr. Takem changed the fee schedule to $125/session. Her reasoning behind this was “the fee needs to be high for him to perceive the therapy as valuable and worth his effort and time”.…
When multiple children in the city of Woburn contracted leukemia amongst other diseases, the parents believed that it was because of contamination from the local wells. The parents wanted an apology from the people that ruined their lives, so they filed a lawsuit. Jan Schlichtmann, a personal injury lawyer, was asked to be the lead attorney on the case. He first went in looking for a settlement. He commented on how the point of civil court is to settle. “They settle. Out of the 780,000, only 12,000 or 1 1/2 percent ever reach a verdict. The whole idea of lawsuits is to settle, to compel the other side to settle.”[1] When corporations have a lawsuit filed against them, they don’t make that big of a deal out of it because there’s not a full case…
The EEOC’s role in the lawsuit was to find out whether or not the claim was valid. Once they decided that the claim was valid, they tried…
The employment law case that this paper will be about is the Cushman & Wakefield discrimination case. This case was filed in Baltimore, MD in 2014 with the Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In March 2017, the law suit was settled. This case is about a woman by the name of Toi Patterson who filed suit with the EEOC against her employer Cushman & Wakefield in Columbia, MD. Ms. Paterson worked for this company for nine years working her way up to senior administrator. She asked for medical leave for breast cancer treatment under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). She requested a reasonable accommodation to return to work on a part-time basis while she underwent treatment and notified her employer that she may need addition unpaid…
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects workers from discrimination based on their race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. In order for an employee to present a prima facie case for national origin discrimination, an employee would have to have prima facie evidence sufficient enough for a decision or verdict to be…
Any case that reaches an upper level court all the way to Supreme Court, involves numerous political actors and parties supporting both sides of the case. First and foremost is the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher. She testified the violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment based on her Caucasian race by the defendant, University of Texas at Austin. The University denied her admission even though she surpassed all requirements and fell into their top 10% guarantee for admission category. The President of the University, Bill Powers, argues that their use of affirmative action respects the rights of all students and is vital to maintaining the diversity that creates a beneficial learning environment on campus. Edward Baum, part of the American Enterprise Institute, is a republican that worked with Fisher on combatting this Affirmative Action case as he has many before in the past. Civil rights groups and individuals such as Baum, assist in swaying the courts to eliminate this factor in…
In the articles "Discrimination At Large" by Jennifer Coleman and "Ok, So I'm Fat" by Neil Steinberg, both authors discuss the battle of being overweight and the discrimination they experienced because of it.…
Ulrich, D. (1997). Human Resources Champions. The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results. Boston: Harvard Business School Press…
Within this essay, I would like to describe how and when to challenge discrimination within school practice, and how this can in affect children and young people. What discrimination is and how to prevent it happening in schools.…
For many centuries, women have had to fight for their rights. In today’s society, women are still discriminated against in the workplace. Generations of women have sacrificed for woman today to have the opportunity to be able to have a voice on what they want to do in life. In the workforce, women make up 47% of the United States workforce (“Women's Bureau (WB) - Quick Facts on Women in the Labor Force in 2010"). This is almost half but yet they are paid less than men. Men are often bound to receive a promotion, transfer, and compensation before women. The broader problems of obvious discrimination against women in the workforce have been dealt with for centuries. Across the world, women are discriminated against in the workforce through family…
Although the United States have made great strides toward cultural diversity and the equality of all people, discrimination has still managed to destroy lives in modern society. This country was founded by immigrants, yet the majority of society still looks upon immigration with hatred. The attitude of the general public was heavily influenced in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, causing innocent citizens to be labeled as terrorists. More than a decade later, Presidential candidate Donald Trump fueled the fire when he brought the issue of immigration back into the forefront of the media focus. The most controversial part of Trump’s statement was his negative description of the immigrants who are coming across the borders, characterizing…