By Steve Kardell | Published July 19, 2022 | Posted in Employee Rights | Tagged Tags: adverse action, discrimination, retaliation |
An “adverse employment action” such as wrongful termination, denial of a raise or promotion, denial of benefits or assignment to less-attractive duties could play an important role in a whistleblower’s discrimination or retaliation lawsuit against an employer. But what legal standards does the whistleblower need to demonstrate to be successful in such cases? To establish Read More
Read MoreA former account executive at Alliance Healthcare Services in Irvine, California claims she was fired as retaliation for requesting reduced hours to accommodate the demands of her breast cancer treatment, and for raising concerns that she was not being paid fairly in comparison to male counterparts. That account executive, Kristen Paltz, filed a federal discrimination Read More
Read MoreJosh Valdez, a former executive for a subsidiary of Aveta Inc., sued the company, claiming it had spent years engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare of hundreds of millions of dollars. The lawsuit was originally filed in April 2011, but was under court seal until early 2014 and went through an extensive court process Read More
Read MoreA former sales executive for Spectrum in San Antonio claims she was fired from the company in retaliation for reporting allegations of securities frauds to her bosses. She has since filed a federal lawsuit against Spectrum’s parent company, Charter Communications Inc., and seeks punitive damages, lost wages and a return to her job. Case background Read More
Read MoreA former chief compliance officer at National Holdings Corp. has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming she was terminated after 16 years with the brokerage firm because she began looking into allegations of insider trading by the firm’s executives. The lawsuit was filed this summer in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Read More
Read MoreA former law enforcement officer with the Knoxville Police Department in Tennessee claims his department retaliated against him after he filed a complaint about vulgar roll call videos and various other examples of inappropriate behavior within the department. He ultimately resigned as a result of the alleged retaliation. The officer. Lt. Travis Brasfield, submitted a Read More
Read MoreMaxim Healthcare Service, a federal contractor for healthcare services, is the subject of a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it retaliated against an employee who reported fraud at an immigrant detention facility. According to the complaint, the whistleblower, Laura Wondercheck, worked for Maxim as a pharmacy technician, serving at the Dilley immigration detention facility for women and Read More
Read MoreThe water crisis in Flint has been national news for the last several years, and one legal battle surrounding the crisis recently came to a head with a jury siding with the city. The former city administrator, Natasha Henderson, had sued the city under Michigan’s Whistleblower Protection Act. In 2016. According to Henderson, Mayor Karen Read More
Read MoreA whistleblower recently received $40,000 from a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The award compensated him for lost wages and pain and suffering after his wrongful termination from Fairmount Foundry, Inc. According to the whistleblower, he was illegally fired from the foundry after he reported some health and Read More
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