A woman who alleged male employees circulated a rumor that she had a sexual relationship with a higher-ranking manager in order to obtain her position adequately stated a claim for discrimination and a hostile work environment, given the historical stereotypes ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

Disputed evidence on whether an employee who struggles with mobility could have performed her job without extensive travel, whether the employer lacked a reasonable belief she could engage in such travel and whether she was terminated because of her disability ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Henry F. Floyd

A former store worker did not plead sufficient facts to suggest the ABC retaliated against her. Background Defendant Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control operates a liquor store in Norfolk. Plaintiff Jeanette L. Bailey was employed by defendant as a ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The 180-day waiting period for federal employees to file a discrimination lawsuit begins upon filing an initial complaint; not after each subsequent amendment, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. In a matter of first impression, the court ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals News Employment Discrimination Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

A woman’s assertion that her supervisor at VCU made several derogatory remarks about African-American women during a meeting was insufficient to support her discrimination and retaliation claims because she could not establish that the university’s actions, such as giving her ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The court agreed that Winchester Medical Center did not discriminate or retaliate against its former nursing director, finding there is no adverse employment action when an employer declines to pay discretionary severance benefits because a terminated employee refuses to sign ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Per Curiam Opinion

In a case of first impression, the court determined that Title VII’s 180-day waiting period is not jurisdictional. In deciding whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff’s court action, which was filed before 180 days from the time ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

A woman’s ADA discrimination and retaliation claims against Fairfax County failed because she could not show she suffered an adverse employment action. There was no evidence she was forced to leave her job nor had she been singled out for ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The court found that the amended complaint brought by a woman whose suit alleging discrimination on the basis of race was dismissed without prejudice, failed to cure the deficiencies in the original complaint. While she may have been the most ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The dismissal of a parole officer’s discrimination claims was upheld, because they were filed under the Rehabilitation Act, which is governed by the two-year statute of limitations in the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act rather than Maryland’s three-year statute of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge John A. Gibney Jr.