Employment Discrimination Report Index-Summary

VENUE

– Racial bias, venue proper in county where action “implemented” (Mich.), 35:159

VERMONT

– State troopers and public safety officers, mandatory retirement (Vt.), 35:139

VETERANS

– Mo., executive order on bias prohibition, 35:139
– OFCCP

– – Agenda, Special Report, 34:138
– – Outreach effort, regional directors discuss, 35:173

– USERRA

See UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT (USERRA)

VIOLENCE

– Battery, text message and contact sufficient for claim against harasser (M.D. La.), 35:252
– Damages

– – ABM Indus. to resolve EEOC harassment charges that include sexual assaults of female janitors (E.D. Cal.), 35:316
– – Condominium firm employee's award for battery claim (11th Cir.), 34:70; (U.S., rev den), 35:410
– – Food products employee's award, assault by coworker not investigated (E.D. Tex.), 34:394

– Domestic violence, leave for victims

– – Balancing Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3047

– – Healthy Families Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2460, S 1152

– – Natl. Employment Lawyers Ass'n, session discussion, 35:463

– Employment policies, protecting employees, BNA Insights, 35:58
– Fighting

– – Age bias, factory worker's firing upheld (7th Cir.), 35:335
– – Racial bias, driver's claim denial, white workers also fired (8th Cir.), 34:480

– Immunity, sheriff's individual and official immunity for negligent training of deputy who sexually assaulted females (8th Cir.), 34:239
– Morals clause firing for domestic disturbances arrest of TV reporter (5th Cir.), 35:76
– Rape Victims Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 2915

– Reporting delay

– – Teacher sexually assaulted by supervisor, claim revived (1st Cir.), 34:443
– – USPS worker's alleged sexual assault by coworker, equitable tolling of harassment claims when contact with EEO counselor made after 6 months (5th Cir.), 34:62

– Sex offender coworker, Pier 1 employee's claim for assault rejected, liability based on remedial action (Cal. Ct. App.), 35:505
– Threats

See THREATS

VIRGINIA

– Chesterfield City Sch. Bd., age bias, worker laid off and demoted entitled to email (E.D. Va.), 35:403
– Corrections Dep't, retaliation, superintendents not in privity with department in grievance procedure have no res judicata defense (4th Cir.), 35:602
– Roanoke, sexual harassment, Supremacy Clause, party substitution, new sheriff (4th Cir.), 34:211
– Sexual harassment and wrongful discharge, medical center worker's claims against employer not supervisor (W.D. Va.), 35:190
– State workers, bias prohibition, sexual orientation removed from executive order, 34:217; orientation listed in new directive, 34:338
– University Med. Coll., sex bias, retaliation, and defamation, medical resident's claims (W.D. Va.), 34:758

VISION IMPAIRMENT

– Hiring, rejected applicant, discovery of audio recording (W. Va.), 34:218
– Hours of work, wine steward's claims for firing and refusal of schedule adjustment revived (9th Cir.), 35:157
– Monocular vision of EAP counselor not disability (8th Cir.), 35:271
– Promotions, IRS programmer may sue for denial (D. Md.), 34:668
– Reassignment not required, coworker's rights under bargaining pact overrides (Ohio Ct. App.), 34:659
– Reinstatement of impaired city laborer, DOT standards inapplicable (Iowa Ct. App.), 35:314

VOLUNTEERS

– Retaliation, ex-teacher's claim improperly dismissed based on “volunteer” status (Fla. Ct. App.), 35:246
– Sexual harassment and retaliation, inadequate remuneration for firefighters to count as “employees” (N.D. Ohio), 34:77