By Steve Kardell | Published May 18, 2023 | Posted in Employee Rights, Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: employer retaliation, FMLA, retaliation claim |
A table games dealer has sued Harrah’s Casino and parent company Caesar’s Entertainment for retaliating against him for reporting an incident to human resources and requesting FMLA leave. William Peterson III, a disabled veteran, was forced to work through a fire alarm which triggered his post-traumatic stress disorder. When he reported the event, pointed out Read More
Read MoreA Connecticut professor, who was not reappointed after he raised labor practice concerns, was recently awarded over $735,000 in a whistleblower lawsuit. The University of Connecticut School of Business violated labor laws, as well as their own policy against retaliation. Case background Luke Weinstein accepted a director and assistant professor position at the University of Read More
Read MoreA former firefighter from Montebello, California recently filed a federal whistleblower wrongful termination suit worth more than $5 million. That firefighter, Vernon Creswell, already won a $2.6 million payout from the city after a jury found in July 2015 that he was a victim of racial harassment and discrimination while working for the department. Cresswell Read More
Read MoreIt was a predictable result of the COVID-19 pandemic—by May 2020, new employment lawsuits in federal courts started to majorly fall off. However, by the end of the year and carrying into the first quarter of 2021, employment lawsuits began to rebound, marking just one more indicator of an economy that is beginning to wake Read More
Read MorePresbyterian Healthcare Services, a healthcare organization that operates Lincoln County Medical Center and its emergency services unit in New Mexico, paid $150,000 and provided other relief to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Case background The Lincoln County Medical Center allegedly discriminated against a black Read More
Read MoreAmerican Financing Corp. was ordered by a judge in Arapahoe County District Court to pay out settlements to four former employees of the Colorado-based mortgage company. The employees claimed they were fired after raising concerns about widespread mortgage fraud propagated by the company. In their lawsuit, the four former employees claimed they had attempted to Read More
Read MoreA former part-time employee of department store JC Penney filed a retaliation claim, saying they were fired after alerting authorities that the retailer was overcharging its customers. This is just the most recent bad news for JC Penney, whose stock fell sharply after it announced its 2014 profit numbers and several key officers left the Read More
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