Harassment

Can an employee make a wrongful discharge claim on the grounds that she was forced to quit?

Posted on April 24, 2015

Perhaps so-in a recent decision from the federal court in the Western District of Virginia, the court, anticipating how the Supreme Court of Virginia would rule on this issue, found that a plaintiff may be able to state a claim of wrongful discharge against his or her employer even where he or she resigned if […]

Tenth Circuit Tackles Supervisor Issue

Posted on February 28, 2014

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Title VII

In Vance v. Ball State Univ., 133 S.Ct. 2434, 2441 (2013), the Supreme Court resolved a conflict among the circuits regarding what level of authority a harasser must have in order to qualify as a supervisor under Title VII in the context of a claim of sexual harassment. However, there remain questions as to how […]