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Category Archives: Employment Discrimination

Job Discrimination Cases Tough to Win

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A study published last month in the Harvard Law & Policy Review proves something I’ve stressed in classes for many years, based on anecdotal experience:  winning a federal employment discrimination claim is a long shot.  Based on data from 1979-2006 the study reports: Federal employment discrimination plaintiffs won 15% of their cases, compared to the [...]

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Science 101

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Following a discussion of employment law this week a student sent me this article: Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute fired postdoctoral researcher Nathaniel Abraham from his position in the biology lab because he believes “that the Bible presents a true account of human creation.” Abraham was hired to work on [...]

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More: Smoking and Employment

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Others have picked up the story about Scott Co.’s termination of Scott Rodrigues for smoking. Legal Blog Watch mentions the story here. Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer has a post about the story and links to Do No Evil and its 200-plus comments on the suit, to Out of the Jungle’s topical links and articles, [...]

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Less is More

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Apropos the subject of employers and overweight employees, a reader passed along a report that since 2002 Microsoft employees have lost more than 30 tons – 61,100 pounds actually, from 2,152 people, an average of 28.4 pounds each. The employees took advantage of Microsoft’s weight management benefit program, in which the company pays for 80% [...]

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Smoking Ban, Weight Tax, and Bias

Monday, December 4, 2006

Two news items bring to mind themes addressed in At-Will At Work, a recent post about Scotts Co.’s termination of an employee for smoking. First, the global smoking zone continues to shrink. Germany announced last Friday that it intends to ban smoking in restaurants, discos, schools, and public buildings. The ban would not affect smoking [...]

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