Sentences with phrase «employee sued»

The employee sued for wrongful dismissal.

A hospital insurer was held to owe a duty to defend a hospital employee sued for the privacy tort of inclusion upon seclusion, as such was an «invasion or violation of privacy» or an «invasion or violation of a right of privacy, withi...

The employee sued for age discrimination in Massachusetts state court, and Mount Vernon appointed counsel for Visionaid.

The employee sued his former employer.

After his success at the Employment Standards Branch, the employee sued in Small Claims Court for the back wages not covered by the six month limit.

The employee sued for wrongful dismissal and claimed compensation.

I am familiar with at least one decision where an employee sued an employer for invasion of his privacy rights because the employer had performed a credit check without his consent.

For example, in Jesperson v. Harrah's, the plaintiff employee sued her former employer, a casino, after she was terminated for refusing to wear makeup on the job, contrary to the employer's grooming code.

In a more brazen case of failed Valentine's Day seduction, an employee sued the company president after receiving a series of emails attempting to «draw her into the office alone on Valentine's Day.»

If that were so, they'd get smoked in court every time a current or ex - employee sued them.

A former Google employee sued the company for firing him back in November 2017 for making pro-diversity posts.

I hope some gay employee sues Chik A Fil and some of these others.)

Badly managed layoff interviews are not only a cause of intense frustration, they all too often lead to the employee suing the company.

One of former Ashley Madison employees sued the company for $ 20 million citing injury earned while creating thousands of the site's sex bots: Fake profiles designed to initiate communication.

In addition, an employee handbook can help protect a pet retailer legally if an employee sues the company.

«Although employers are often justifiably concerned when HR employees sue, perhaps attributable to the «they know where the bodies are buried» syndrome, as this week's result show, all is not always lost when they sue.»

1 Mar. 2, 2016)(unpublished), plaintiff employees sued two defendant employers for a host of Labor Code wage / hour violations and four plaintiffs sued two individual defendants (who owned employers) for PAGA claims.

«Must Employees Suing Their Employers Be «Disgruntled?»

In «Paramour Cases — California Style,» Fox provides a link summary of Mackey v. Department of Corrections, or the so - called Chowchilla (prison) case, in which employees sued because co-workers who were sexually involved with the boss allegedly received favorable treatment.

If an employee sues an employer under the Sabine Pilot cause of action and proves to be successful, that employee may be entitled to the following remedies:

By Inga Andriessen Many businesses are blissfully unaware of the legal minefields they are navigating until one day it happens: a terminated employee sues, makes a Ministry... Read more

Keith Patten explores the difficulties involved in an employee suing their employer for an injury sustained in an attack at work

However, mind that your General Liability policy won't cover any damages in case your employee sues you for an injury you presumably caused.

Depending on the policy, liability coverage may help provide protection if, for instance, someone is injured at the business, if a detective product causes someone harm or if an employee sues for discrimination.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, grocery - delivery service Instacart, which is also being sued by some of its independent contractors, said it would allow some of its workers to become part - time employees.

It is also striking news for those who remember that Microsoft paid $ 97 million more than a decade ago to settle a case brought by re-classified independent contractors who sued for employee benefits.

Employees who are terminated for excessive absenteeism will sue, claiming discrimination over those employees -; possibly the ones who are more vital to your business success -; who are absent just as ofteEmployees who are terminated for excessive absenteeism will sue, claiming discrimination over those employees -; possibly the ones who are more vital to your business success -; who are absent just as ofteemployees -; possibly the ones who are more vital to your business success -; who are absent just as often.»

It may set a precedent in other British lawsuits as well — for example four messenger companies are currently being sued by bicycle messengers who claim they should have employee status.

Hedge fund manager Steven Cohen's firm has been sued by a female employee who alleged unfair pay practices and a sexist working environment.

Some companies deserve to be sued by an employee for wrongful termination, but a disturbing number of companies are victims of frivolous lawsuits initiated by employees eager to jump on the litigation bandwagon.

In its Vance vs. Ball State decision Monday, the Supreme Court curtailed the ability of employees to sue for workplace discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

«It is puzzling that an employee who remains under contract (and is still being paid) has sued us for being fired, especially when we continue to comply fully with the terms of our agreement with her,» TheBlaze said.

Instead, the agency sued Mr. Corzine in June, accusing him of failing to supervise an MF Global employee who misused customer money.

Around the time Bezos launched Amazon, MTV was still suing its former employee, trying to get its domain name back.

Second, in exchange for the severance, you can have your employees sign a general release, which decreases the chances of them suing you.

Additionally, the fact that Oregon «sued five of our employees personally» helped to factor into the decision to cut future ties to the state, he said.

An employment attorney with prior experience suing Tesla, Therese Lawless, said: «You wonder, if they had all these bad employees making cars, do you really want to buy a Tesla now?

For example, an employee may have recourse to sue an employer if they can prove the employer was negligent for remaining open.

Sometimes, Uber doesn't get its way, as happened when the California Labor Commission's Office ruled that a driver who had sued the company be treated as an employee as opposed to as an independent contractor.

Small businesses are sued for a wide variety of reasons, from breach of contract to product defects to employee relations to noncompliance with federal regulations (such as the Americans with Disabilities Act).

They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US.

He is sued by a former employee who, among other things, alleges that he is sleeping with his wife, a current employee.

«Andy Puzder is against unions, calls the minimum wage and overtime «restrictions» and employees «extra cost,» and even said he wants to fire workers like us and replace us with machines that can't take vacation or sue their employers when they break the law,» the nonprofit Interfaith Worker Justice quoted Rogelio Hernandez, a Carl's Jr. cook, as saying.

If that happens and the company gets sued, the first thing a computer forensic team does is «look in employees» inboxes and hard drives for those underground archives,» she says.

A potentially devastating lawsuit against ride - hailing company Uber over its classification of drivers as contractors instead of employees is entering an important phase: determining whether drivers can sue together through a class action.

(Indeed, Fortune on Trump in 1990: «The boss has always behaved like a brash entrepreneur: trusting his gut; charming his executives one minute, bellowing at them the next; second - guessing and often firing employees; suing his suppliers; making wild public statements; nagging the custodians who polish his brass.»)

Employees continue to sue their employers due costly retirement plans.

This comes just nine months after the Labor Department sued Google for not handing over 19 years of pay data on 21,000 Google employees for a routine audit into the company's pay methods, as part of that department's attempt to show whether Google's hiring discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other factors.

A lawyer for ride service Uber, which has been sued by drivers who contend they should be considered employees and are seeking class action status, said it would be preferable to have a trial just on the three drivers who filed the complaint in order to avoid setting a risky precedent.

On top of that, a former Mallinckrodt employee and shareholder is also suing the company for failing to disclose that 60 % of its revenue comes from Acthar.