Potential Ramifications of The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Discrimination Cases
As you may recall from Tuesday’s blog post, the Supreme Court’s ruling on the discrimination case hinged on the definition of the term supervisor. Many who criticized the ruling in favor of the employer believe that the court’s majority misinterpreted the meaning of the word supervisor. While many supervisors are not given the authority to hire and […]
Supreme Court’s Decision on Second Discrimination Case
Yesterday’s blog post about one of the discrimination cases decided by the Supreme Court Monday. The second case that the Supreme Court decided on was one that reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision. Dr. Naiel Nassar, an employee of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and of Middle Eastern descent, quit his faculty job after he […]
Supreme Court’s Decision on Discrimination Case
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of employers in two separate cases yesterday. The first case, which we will discuss in today’s blog post, centered on the issue of the definition of the word “supervisor”. The significance of the term (which the lower courts were divided over) hinges on the liability attributed to an employee […]