Is it Retaliation to Fire A Supervisor For a Fabricated Sexual Harassment Report?
Posted on June 28, 2017
the situation One of your supervisors reports that another employee has been sexually harassing several women working under him. Your HR director interviews each of these women and none back up this story. You then terminate the reporting supervisor based on her false report. Is this retaliation in violation of Title VII?
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Threat to Discipline Based on False Report to EEOC Could Support Retaliation Claim
Posted on August 22, 2014
Posted in Retaliation, Title VII
In Cox v. Onondaga County Sheriff Department, No. 12-1526 (2d Cir. July 23, 2014), the Second Circuit recently held that threats made by an employer to charge employees with making a false report to the EEOC could establish a prima facie case of unlawful retaliation in violation of Title VII, shifting the burden of proof […]
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