Question: One of our employees, who happens to be in the protected age group, has a (charitably described) ‘strained’ relationship with his boss. He feels that he has been subjected to unfair criticism and that his supervisor’s performance assessments of...
Question: I’m an HR Director. Several of our executives use language that is ambiguous when describing specific employees. I’m not sure whether their lingo reflects some biased attitude or whether they are genuinely concerned about the issues they raise. Can...
Quirky Question # 139: I know you’ve written about last year’s Supreme Court decision of Gross v. FBL. Does that holding have any application beyond the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
Quirky Question # 135: This question is not particularly “quirky” but I’d like to know what legislation Congress currently is contemplating that bears upon employment issues. Can you provide any guidance?
Mark’s Analysis of Class Certification Issues The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently addressed the question of whether a court could weigh competing evidence at the class certification stage. In deciding that issue, the Court also clarified the standard of proof...
Quirky Question # 108: We are a communications company in Colorado. We recently terminated a sales employee for poor performance and he has since filed a charge against our company claiming his termination was the result of age discrimination. In...
Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., Age Discrimination Cases Under the ADEA On June 18, 2009, a sharply divided Supreme Court issued its decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., No. 08-441. The 5-4 decision establishes that plaintiffs pursuing claims of...
Quirky Question # 63: We are defending against a claim of age discrimination. The plaintiff has lined up a number of current and former employees, each of whom apparently intend to testify that during their employment, they also were (or...
Quirky Question # 39: I am the operations manager for a food distributor. One of our other managers, a long-term employee, was recently demoted to a position that places him in frequent contact with our customers. He was unhappy about...
Quirky Question # 23: I read with interest your Quirky Question # 22 regarding age discrimination and releases of age discrimination claims. We have a slightly difference issue. Our company has gone through periodic reductions in force, stemming both from...
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