Workplace Discrimination

• Do You Know? Age Discrimination Is Prohibited

  Staff Writer | August 27, 2006 9:28 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, also know as ADEA, and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act prohibit discrimination against any person who is more than 40 years of age. Federal case law provides that when one employee is replaced by a younger person, who is also more than 40 years of age, a claim for age discrimination may still be made. If you have questions about age...

• Do You Know? Title VII Prohibits Discrimination Based on National Origin

  Staff Writer | August 26, 2006 9:25 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Title VII prohibits discrimination based on national origin. It also prohibits discrimination against a person because they associate with persons of a different national origin, whether by marriage or other social relationship, by involvement in organizations identified with a particular national origin, or by having a name associated with a particular group. If you have questions about...

• Do You Know? Title VII Forbids the Maintenance of a Hostile Workplace

  Staff Writer | August 25, 2006 9:23 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Title VII forbids the maintenance of a hostile workplace. However, Title VII is not a general civility code. It does not forbid the normal kinds of interactions between employees, which may be angry, rude or downright offensive. Rather, a hostile workplace occurs when prohibited matters are so severe or pervasive as to affect the terms and conditions of a person's employment. If you have...

• Do You Know? EEOC and Discrimination

  Staff Writer | August 24, 2006 9:16 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, known as the EEOC, has the responsibility to enforce most of the anti-discrimination laws of the United States? This includes Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), In Colorado, the EEOC shares responsibility for enforcement with the Colorado Civil Rights Division, an agency...

• Do You Know? Your Right to File a Worker's Compensation Claim

  Staff Writer | August 23, 2006 9:12 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  If you were injured on the work site, you may have the right to file a worker's compensation claim.

• Do You Know? Unemployment Claims May Be Filed Online in Colorado

  Staff Writer | August 22, 2006 9:10 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Colorado permits the filing of unemployment compensation claims on line.

• Employment Discrimination--Can you prove it?

  Staff Writer | August 21, 2006 9:55 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  In Antonio v. Sygma Network, Inc., No. 05-1374 (10th Cir. August 17, 2006), the 10th Circuit affirmed a judgment without trial for an employer, who was sued by an employment claiming employment retaliation and discrimination. The Court concluded that the trial court properly ruled that: 1) plaintiff's prima facie case of retaliation failed for lack of causation; and 2) her discrimination case...

• Discrimination in Overtime Assignments and Compensation

  Staff Writer | August 18, 2006 12:09 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A class of female employees at The Boeing Company's Wichita, Kansas facility sued claiming discrimination in overtime assignments and compensation. On August 7, 2006, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held in favor of Boeing and against the female employees on their appeal of the trial court's decisions regarding class certification.

• Play by the Rules

  Staff Writer | August 09, 2006 11:52 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On August 1, 2006, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unusual show of descriptive writing, observed the following, when ruling on claims of breach of contract in the 1984 sale of the majority of stock in the partnership that owned the Denver Broncos. "If sport be a metaphor for life, then surely the sale of a National Football League franchise must be like the game itself. Sophisticated...

• Employers Discriminate Against Military Reservists

  Staff Writer | August 07, 2006 12:39 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  When reservists working in one of the U.S. military branches are called to serve, the law mandates that the reservist's civilian job be held by his or her employer. The employment law statute says that the reservist "must be put back in the same or similar position with like seniority, status and pay." Some companies, however, still do not comply with the law by firing or demoting employees who...