It will be recalled that these cases concerned claims for open - ended contractual damages for
alleged breaches of employment contracts by the employers in the way that the claimants were disciplined and dismissed.
Fleming brought a lawsuit against the Employer
alleging breach of an employment contract and employment discrimination over a disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 («Act»).
Not exact matches
As in the instant case, the plaintiff there
alleged that the individual defendant obtained certain trade secrets during his
employment with plaintiff, then in
breach of a confidentiality agreement that was part
of his
employment contract, misappropriated that information when he went to work for the defendant JPS.
Defending technology company and its board
of directors in multimillion dollar PA state court action brought by founder / consultant / shareholder
alleging claims for
breach of fiduciary duty,
breach of contract, and rescission; prosecuting action in NJ federal court on behalf
of executive terminated in
breach of his
employment agreement; defending companies and their majority owners in numerous state court actions throughout NY and NJ
alleging breach of contract and fraud; defending company in connection with DOL investigation regarding misclassification
of employees; defending health - tech entrepreneur in connection with DOL investigation regarding unemployment insurance fraud; counseling global company and its US subsidiary in connection with various
employment law matters; and negotiating numerous separation agreements.
Using a cost - effective approach to
employment litigation, Taft's attorneys have defended individual and class action lawsuits involving claims
alleging race, gender, age, disability, and religious discrimination and harassment; retaliation; Family and Medical Leave Act violations; ERISA violations;
breach of contract; torts; whistleblower claims; and various other
employment - related causes
of action.
The claimant brought a personal injury claim
alleging that his employer had
breached its duty
of care towards him and / or had
breached his
employment contract which had caused his illness (depression) in its handling
of a claim
of sexual harassment against him.
The trial judge found that the incidents complained
of took place outside the workplace, the employee had made a timely apology to the victim which he had accepted and several
of the incidents
alleged to have amounted to sexual harassment and
breach of the
employment contract in fact was found to be «consensual conduct among friends».
He litigates in multiple areas
of employment law and defends against individual and class action lawsuits
alleging violations
of wage and hour laws, discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment,
breach of contract, labor code section 132a claims, and other related matters.
Examples
of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability
of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from
alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in
employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim
alleging that a public official had committed the tort
of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner
of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose
of slavery and that officers
of the Metropolitan Police Force
breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable
of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers
of that force into
alleged criminal conduct on the part
of the claimants during the course
of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.