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After an office manager at a South Carolina company suffered a health setback and had to be hospitalized, she asked her employer for medical leave. The company fired her instead, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Many people working in Michigan wonder why it is so difficult for them to identify workplace discrimination. In some cases, victims need their jobs and simply wish or hope that they are imagining the discrimination. Other times, workers know deep down, but they choose...
A human resources coordinator, who worked for the Detroit Foundation Hotel up until last year, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against her former employer. In her federal court filing, she outlines how the hotel's management referred to her other African-American...
All over the Detroit region and other Michigan cities, more and more employees are standing up against workplace discrimination. This is a sign of growing awareness about these issues across the nation. However, it is crucial for workers to understand that...
Michigan's new governor, Gretchen Whitmer, recently signed an executive order that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) state employees from discrimination. It also requires that the same protections extend to employees who work for companies...
Three workers, who previously worked together at both a Detroit and Dearborn Tim Hortons, announced their intentions to file a federal race discrimination lawsuit against their former employer on Dec. 18. Each of the African-American workers alleges that they were...
Typically, when you think of workplace discrimination, there's a good chance you think about bias against people based on race or gender. There's a good reason for this perception, as the unfortunate reality is that many people do face harassment and discrimination...
On Dec. 10, a federal jury in Detroit will begin hearing arguments related to a workplace discrimination lawsuit filed against the City of Warren. The plaintiff, who is a firefighter of Cuban descent, had filed a lawsuit earlier this year accusing his co-workers and...
If you suspect that you have a viable claim for wrongful termination, don't be fooled by an employer who tries to say that you don't have a case because you were an "at-will" employee. At-will employment is a term used to describe an employment relationship in which...
There was a time in the past when pregnancy meant the end of a working woman's career. A pregnant woman could not work in the eyes of most employers. Therefore, before pregnancy discrimination laws existed, many women found themselves not being hired, being terminated...