Workplace Discrimination

• East St. Louis Sued for Wrongful Termination

  Shannon Weidemann | January 14, 2008 8:25 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  A former employee of an East St. Louis city department has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city. The woman claims that she lost her job after refusing to sign a petition in 2006. She worked for the Community Development Department. According to a lawsuit Robinson filed against the City of East St. Louis, the city "violated the plaintiff's substantive and procedural due...

• Brent Adams Firm To Challenge RIF Law

  Michael Byrne | January 11, 2008 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  For many years, career state employees separated from employment under a Reduction-In-Force, or "RIF," could bring an action in the Office of Administrative Hearings appealing such separations. These RIF appeal rights were a necessary protection for state employees. In the past, supervisors at some agencies allegedly used the RIF process, intended to rid the public payroll of redundant...

• Court Of Appeals Rules For Brent Adams Client

  Michael Byrne | January 08, 2008 5:39 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  When longtime State employee Peggy Anderson applied for a promotion at Whitaker School, she thought she'd get promotional priority - a hiring preference over non-state employees - as the law requires. Instead, a non-state employee got the job. Peggy Anderson decided to fight back. Ms. Anderson hired Brent Adams attorney Michael Byrne, who argued in court that the State failed to give Ms....

• Scrap Metal Fire Burns in Port of Tampa

  Courtney Mills | 2007-11-30T14:26:15 | 0 Comments

  A huge scrap metal fire at a metal recycling plant broke out early this morning, sending reams of smoke billowing over an entire portion of southern Hillsborough County. Firefighters attempted to out the scrap metal fire at Trademark Metal Recycling with water, to no avail. Large clouds of smoke from the fire could be seen from miles away.According to media reports, the Hillsborough...

• Employment Discrimination at Morgan Stanley

  Tim Smith | 2007-11-07T09:25:33 | 0 Comments

  Lawyers for Morgan Stanley announced Monday, October 29 that their client had agreed to pay $46,000,000 in cash to resolve a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed by female employees of the company. The terms of the settlement include not only the financial compensation but requires Morgan Stanley to make changes to the manner in which it compensates and promotes employees as well as...

• MDL CEO convicted in Ohio investor loss

  Richard Schulte | 2007-10-31T11:19:58 | 0 Comments

  A Pittsburgh hedge fund manager was convicted Tuesday of defrauding Ohio's workers' compensation system.Mark Lay, CEO of MDL Capital Management, faces up to 20 years in prison for investment advisory fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.The charges were linked to the loss of $216 million he invested for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation in a highly-leveraged...

• Indiana Realtors Take a Stand Against Discrimination

  Chrissie Cole | 2007-10-11T23:30:48 | 0 Comments

  The Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors is taking a stand against discrimination in housing, in Northwest Indiana, and says they will provide equal opportunity to anyone and everyone.Discrimination complaints logged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development increased 12% from last year to over 10,000 throughout the country. This is the highest increase since 1990,...

• A "Forgotten Appeal Right" For State Employees?

  Michael Byrne | 2007-10-05T17:13:56 | 0 Comments

  As most state employees know, a written warning is the lowest level of formal discipline imposed under North Carolina personnel policy. Many agencies also have less formal forms of written discipline, such as "supervisor's complaints" (DMV), "TAPS" entries (DOC), and "documented counseling" (DHHS and others). Written warnings carry only internal appeal rights, or none at all. The "lesser"...

• City to Pay Fire Captain $350,000 to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | 2007-09-07T01:15:33 | 0 Comments

  The city has agreed to pay a female fire captain $350,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit that claimed she was ridiculed, unfairly disciplined and wrongly passed over for promotion in a male-dominated fire department.The lawsuit was set to go to trial in U.S. District Court, Wednesday, in Indianapolis, prior to the deal being reached."What happened to the Captain was bad and unfortunate and...

• Two Men Seriously Injuried on the Job

  Rick Patterson | 2007-08-26T20:32:15 | 0 Comments

  In Washington two workers received serious injuries while on the job. It appears that while the two men were working when they were hit by a steel beam. "D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said the men were about 30 feet below ground when they were lowering the beam and something broke loose." The injuries, while not life-threatening, are serious. One of the injured men was hit in the...