12-1671 Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.

11-3784 Anderson v. Donahoe

11-3452 Guth v. Tazewell County

11-3387 Arizanovska v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

11-2975 Harper v. C.R. England, Inc.

11-1124 Hicks v. Forest Preserve District of Cook County

11-1484 Blue v. IBEW Local Union 159

11-1342 Abner v. Illinois Dept. of Transportation

10-3556 Smith v. Lafayette Bank & Trust Co.

11-2502 Cook v. IPC International Corp.

10-3213, 10-3701, 10-3872 & 11-1011 Rochelle Waste Disposal, LLC, v. NLRB

10-3694 Coleman v. Donahoe

10-3497 Greene v. Doruff

2010AP1902 Town of Rome Police Department v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

Employment Race discrimination; retaliation

Employment Retaliation

Employment Race discrimination; retaliation; direct method

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal agency says Chrysler Group LLC has agreed to pay $60,000 to resolve allegations of retaliation against two female workers at a Milwaukee distribution center. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a judge accepted the consent decree Wednesday. According to the EEOC, a supervisor reassigned a female worker from a coveted position to a less ...

Employment FLSA; retaliation The scope of statutory term “filed any complaint” in the Fair Labor Standards Act includes oral, as well as written, complaints. A narrow interpretation would undermine the Act’s basic objective,  which is to prohibit “labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the  minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general  well-being of workers,” 29 U. ...

Employment Retaliation Where an employee was fired after submitting a note complaining about racial discrimination, summary judgment was improperly granted to his employer on his retaliation claim. “Best Pallet insists that Lyons did not read the note before firing Loudermilk, but Lyons himself says that he did read it (though Lyons maintains that Loudermilk delivered the note some days before ...

Employment Retaliation; spouses An employee may sue his employer for retaliation, if he is terminated because his wife filed an employment discrimination claim. If the facts Thompson alleges are true, his firing by NAS constituted unlawful retaliation. Title VII’s antiretaliation provision must be construed to cover a broad range of employer conduct. Burlington N. & S. F. R. Co. v. ...

Employment Retaliation Where an employer was dissatisfied with an employee’s interpersonal skills for years before she complained of gender disparity in pay, and the pay dispute had also been ongoing for years, the employee’s termination was not retaliation. “Leitgen responds that her complaints were ongoing up until September 2006, and therefore a large time gap does not separate her protected ...

Employment WFEA; retaliation Theresa Garner appeals the circuit court’s order and judgment dismissing her action against the State of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin System, the University of Wisconsin System Administration, Joely B. Urdan, Shannon E. Bradbury, Brenda Sedmak, Alan Crist, Jason Beier, Sandra D. Humes, Amy R. Watson and Diane Lund. Garner argues: (1) that ...

Employment Retaliation; right of association; due process Where a candidate for a position was not the most qualified candidate, summary judgment was properly granted to the employer on her claim that she was not fired because her husband once filed a frivolous lawsuit against the employer. “Under either case, Norman-Nunnery’s claim cannot survive summary judgment because she has failed to ...

Employment Retaliation Where an employee could not show there was work available that she could perform with her limitations, summary judgment was properly granted to the employer on her claim that her hours were reduced in retaliation for engaging in protected activities. “We agree with the district court that Hill has failed to show that Kavanaugh and Fuscaldo sending her ...

Employment Retaliation The participation clause in Title VII does not prohibit retaliation for participation in an internal investigation. The ‘investigation’ to which section 2000e-3 refers does not include an investigation by the employer, as distinct from one by an official body authorized to enforce Title VII. (A possible exception, discussed below, is irrelevant to this case.) The participation clause prohibits ...