Posts Tagged ‘lawsuit’
Manager fired for doing the right thing
Friday, September 10th, 2010
We at WBI often complain that management is lax regarding mistreatment of workers. Our 2007 national study showed that bosses are perpetrators in 72% of cases. Bosses too rarely try to prevent or rectify bullying and harassment. But this story is among the more preposterous ones we have heard.
The hero is Luis Collazo a former supervisor at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Puerto Rico. A woman scientist in his unit, Diana Hiraldo, complained to him on Feb. 10, 2003 that a co-worker was sexually harassing her on the job. Instead of ignoring the complaint or tipping off the alleged harasser thus triggering an escalation, he arranged and attended a Feb. 20 meeting between Hiraldo and an HR specialist Edgardo Garcia. Garcia explained to her the grievance process. Collazo did the right thing. Agree?
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Tags: Bristol-Myers Squibb, harassment, Jim Edwards, lawsuit, Luis Collazo, Placebo Effect
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction | 6 Comments »
Podcast 13: So You Wanna Sue …
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Podcast 13:
So You Wanna Sue…
New audio tale from a successful plaintiff with painful lessons to share
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Tags: court victory, lawsuit, plaintiff, sue
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Podcasts | 1 Comment »
U.S. Case — $11.65 Million Jury Award
Friday, May 15th, 2009
U.S. Emotional Distress Case Draws Record $11.65 Million Jury Award
Associated FMLA Violation by Employer
by Dee McAree
The National Law Journal
11-11-2002
A case in which an employee charged that he was retaliated against for taking time off under the Family Medical Leave Act to care for his aging parents has triggered an $11.65 million award.
The recent Chicago verdict — one of the largest won under FMLA — is just one of many that employment lawyers say they expect to see as baby boomers are faced with the predicament of caring for aging parents. In 1998, Chris Schultz, a 25-year veteran employee of Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., was the esteemed “MVP Employee” with his picture hanging in the hospital lobby.
But two years later, he was out of a job. Lawyers for the 45-year-old Schultz sued the hospital in Schultz v. Advocate Health, No. 01C-0702 (N.D. Ill. June 5, 2002), claiming that he was unfairly penalized for taking time off to care for his aging parents.
Schultz, who worked in maintenance, was entitled to take 12 weeks intermittently over the course of a year after his request for family medical leave was granted in 2000. (more…)
Tags: FMLA, IIED, lawsuit
Posted in Court Rulings, Social Justice | 1 Comment »
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