A 54-year-old male construction worker cannot sue for disability discrimination based on his employer’s alleged termination of him because of his hernia because he failed to raise this claim in his EEOC administrative charge alleging age discrimination; the Alexandria U.S. ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District
Read More »In this overtime pay suit filed by Dollar Tree Store hourly sales associates, a Norfolk U.S. District Court approves the parties’ third proposed settlement increasing the settlement fund from $300,000 to $600,000, anddenies the request to approve $1,575,000 in attorney’s ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District
Read More »A 79-year-old Hispanic woman of Puerto Rican descent who alleges she was terminated from her position as an associate professor at Virginia Highlands Community College has stated a Title VII claim of national origin discrimination, but the Abingdon U.S. District ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District
Read More »Exotic dancers were employees of defendant clubs, and not independent contractors, and the dancers are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and Maryland wage laws; the 4th Circuit affirms the district court, which “properly captured the economic reality of ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III
Read More »A property manager who worked at defendant real estate company for 17 years prior to her summary dismissal from her at-will employment cannot sue the company for wrongful discharge; the required “reasonable notice” under Virginia law does not include a ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia
Read More »A circuit court did not have subject matter jurisdiction to hear a housing authority’s appeal of a hearing officer order reinstating a senior property manager who had been terminated; based on Va. Code §§ 2.2-3006 and 15.2-1507, the Supreme Court ...
Tagged with: Employment Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Supreme Court of Virginia
Read More »An exchange of emails between a lawyer and sellers of property facing an issue with a title company over reservation of an easement did not establish a written contract that will allow the sellers a five-year limitations period for their ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District
Read More »In an African-American administrative assistant’s Title VII suit alleging her employer showing race-based favoritism toward a white administrative assistant, the Richmond U.S. District Court will strike from the complaint, as not exhausted in plaintiff’s EEOC charge, allegations relating to plaintiff’s ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District
Read More »A 54-year-old former Director of Medical Management for defendant healthcare company who alleges she continued to perform her job and the jobs of absent employees after her treatment for breast cancer, that she was fired and replaced by a younger ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District
Read More »In an African-American hairdresser’s suit against her former employer, Great Clips, a Roanoke U.S. District Court quashes defendant’s subpoenas duces tecum to plaintiff’s former and subsequent employers, as the information sought in these subpoenas may be obtained by written interrogatories ...
Tagged with: Employment Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District
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