In the June 2011 issue of the ABA Journal, David L. Huston Jr. observes a trend of the U.S. Supreme Court being more favorably inclined to employment retaliation claims, than underlying discrimination claims. Of all discrimination-related charges filed in 2010, retaliation charges were up to 36.3 percent, from 27.1 percent in 2000. Some recent retaliation highlights:
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
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Barriers to Family Medical Leave for Men
In the March issue of the ABA Journal, Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple (presumably themselves liberated, in light of those very long names) wrote about Ariel Ayanna, and the new frontier in sex/gender employment discrimination cases. Ayanna was an associate in a Boston law firm, and has filed suit alleging termination in retaliation for his having exercised his right under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to take leave to take care of his new born baby and ill wife.
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