Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees born in the United States are not protection from national origin discrimination. Because of this employment law myth, many employees are unaware that they have meritorious claims for national origin discrimination under federal employment discrimination law. In this article, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida explain how the decision in Goyette v. DCA Advertising, Inc.,828 F.Supp. 227 (S.D. N.Y ..read more

Having fought for the rights of sexual harassment victims for more than twenty years, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employers routinely argue that sexual harassment victims are not protected from retaliation unless they make a “formal” sexual harassment complaint. In advancing this disingenuous and flawed argument, employers never come up with a definition of what constitutes a “formal” sexual harassment complaint—other than to summarily declare that the sexual harassment complaint at issue was not a “formal” sexual harassment complaint. In essentially adopt ..read more

For more than twenty years, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida have fought for the rights of retaliation victims. Through their years of experience handling retaliation claims, our employment attorneys in Ocala, Florida know that a common employment law myth is that employees must personally complain about workplace discrimination in order to secure legal protection against retaliation. Under this employment law myth, employees who use a third-party to complain on their behalf about workplace discrimination are not protected from retaliation and can be lawfully fired because of t ..read more

Having litigated disability cases in the workplace for more than two decades, our employment disability discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida, know that employers sometimes refuse to allow employees with disabilities to utilize the most basic and readily available accommodations that would allow them to perform their jobs. Instead, some employers would prefer to place an employee on indefinite unpaid leave rather than provide a commonsense accommodation provided to other employees. As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently pointed out, such a failure to accommod ..read more

For more than twenty years, our race discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights of racial discrimination victims. Having decades of experience handling race discrimination claims, our race discrimination attorneys in Inverness, Florida know that many employees are targeted for termination because their employer wants to replace them with an employee of a different race. For example, an employer may desire to replace a worker with an employee of a different race in order to change the racial composition of the workplace or to satisfy the discriminatory racial pr ..read more

Having represented sexual harassment victims for more than twenty years, our sexual harassment lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that sexual harassment victims are often uncertain about to whom they should report sexual harassment. Lodging a sexual harassment complaint with the proper employee is of paramount importance because an employer does not have notice of sexual harassment until the sexual harassment victim complains to the proper employee. Having controlled the interpretation and development of sexual harassment law for decades, employer-friendly courts have determined that sexua ..read more

For more than two decades, our sexual harassment lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights of sexual harassment victims. Having litigated sexual harassment cases in Florida courts for years, our Inverness, Florida sexual harassment lawyers know that a common employment law myth is employees who work remotely do not have viable sexual harassment claims. An employment law myth perpetuated, if not created, by employers who routinely argue that employees who work remotely cannot as a matter of law work in a hostile environment. In other words, employers maintain that unless empl ..read more

For more than twenty years, our sexual harassment lawyers in Marion County, Florida have fought for the rights of sexual harassment victims. Through their years of experience representing sexual harassment victims, our sexual harassment attorneys in Ocala, Florida know that supervisors often use their authority to obtain time alone with their sexual harassment victims. For example, supervisors will demand their victims to meet alone with them at work, insist their victims only communicate with them at work, or require their victims to travel alone with them during the course of the workday. Ha ..read more

Throughout the past twenty years, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida have fought for the rights of wrongful termination victims. Having decades of experience litigating wrongful termination cases, our wrongful termination attorneys in Ocala, Florida know that employees who complain about workplace discrimination are often targeted for retaliation. As the U.S. Supreme Court in Crawford v. Metropolitan Gov. of Nashville & Davidson County, 555 U.S. 217 (2009) explained, “fear of retaliation is the leading reason why people stay silent instead of voicing their concerns ..read more

For more than twenty years, our race discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights employees required to work in a racial hostile work environment. Through their decades of experience representing racial discrimination victims, our racial discrimination attorneys in Inverness, Florida know that African-American employees are often subjected to degrading and despicable remarks relating to slavery. In this article, our race discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida explain how the decision in Montgomery v. Prisma Health, 2024 WL 449274 (D. S.C. Feb. 5, 2 ..read more