Showing posts with label Hostile work environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hostile work environment. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

18 States Sue EEOC Over Guidance on Transgender Sexual Harassment

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Eighteen states filed suit this week in a Tennessee federal district court challenging an EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Wor...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Jewish Faculty at NY College Can Move Ahead with Hostile Work Environment Lawsuit

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In Lax v. City University of New York ,  (NY Kings Cty. Sup. Ct., Aug. 24, 2023), a New York state trial court allowed five Orthodox Jewish ...
Saturday, April 08, 2023

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Hostile Work Environment Claims

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In Montgomery v. St. John's United Church of Christ ,  (OH App., April 6, 2023), an Ohio state appellate court held that the ministerial...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Nuns' Hostile Work Environment and Retaliation Claims Can Move Forward

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In Brandenburg v. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America ,  (SD NY, Feb. 23, 2023), a New York federal district court held that it can ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Applies Categorically to Hostile Work Environment Claims

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In Rivera v. Diocese of Venice in Florida, Inc. , (SD FL., Dec. 12, 2022), a Florida federal district court dismissed under the ministerial ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Employees Fired For Religious Refusal Of COVID Vaccine Bring Title VII Suit

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Four former employees of a continuing care retirement community filed suit in an Alabama federal district court last week claiming that they...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

6th Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Minister's Hostile Work Environment Claim

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In Middleton v. United Church of Christ Board ,  (6th Cir., Nov. 22, 2021), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

7th Circuit En Banc: Ministerial Exception Applies To Hostile Work Environment Claims

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In Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Calumet City ,  (7th Cir., July 9, 2021), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en b...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Discrimination Claim By Muslim Employee of Sheriff's Office Is Dismissed

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In Domino v. County of Essex ,  (D NJ, Feb. 11, 2021), a New Jersey federal district court dismissed, without prejudice, a religious discrim...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

7th Circuit En Banc Hears Arguments In Ministerial Exception Case

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The full U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, yesterday heard oral arguments in  Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish....
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

7th Circuit: Ministerial Exception Does Not Cover Hostile Work Environment Claims, Absent Tangible Employment Action

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In Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish ,  (7th Cir., Aug. 31, 2020), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, responding to a question ...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Ministerial Exception Doctrine Does Not Apply To Hostile Work Environment Claim

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In Middleton v. United Church of Christ , (ND OH, Aug. 26, 2020), an Ohio federal district court held that the ministerial exception doctrin...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Atheist Firefighter's Hostile Work Environment Claim Can Proceed

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In Queen v. City of Bowling Green, Kentucky , (6th Cir., April 22, 2020), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Kentucky district...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Court Upholds $1.8M Award For Religiously Hostile Work Environment

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In EEOC v. United Health Programs of America, Inc. ,  (ED NY, March 6, 2020), a New York federal district court, in a 74-page opinion, uphel...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

EEOC Suit Over Insults To Muslim Employees Settled

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The EEOC announced   that a consent decree was signed on Tuesday settling a suit against Haliburton Energy Services. The suit charged that t...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Suit Says Police Chief Forced Religion On Officers

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The Advocate reports on a federal court lawsuit filed last week against the Port Allen, Louisiana Police Department:: A second former Por...
Thursday, October 04, 2018

Ministerial Exception In Hostile Work Environment Cases

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In Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Calumet City ,  (ND IL, Sept. 30, 2018), an Illinois federal district court set out an extens...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

EEOC Sues Over Hostile Treatment of Catholic Employee

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The EEOC announced on Thursday that it had filed a Title VII lawsuit against New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health alleging a manager...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Atheist Firefighter Can Move Ahead With Hostile Work Environment Claim

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In Queen v. City of Bowling Green ,  (WD KY, July 20, 2018), a Kentucky federal district court allowed an atheist firefighter to move ahead ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Suit Contends Ministerial Exception Does Not Bar Hostile Work Environment Claims

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Yesterday's Cook County Record reports on a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago by Sandor Demkovich, for...