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The EEOC’s latest press release (see below) is regarding pregnancy discrimination. Throughout the American workplace, pregnancy discrimination remains widespread. The number of pregnancy discrimination claims filed annually with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been steadily rising for two decades and is hovering near an all-time high.  If you feel that you have been discriminated against by your employer due to your pregnancy, please call Thompson Legal Center at 813-769-3900.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      September 24, 2018

THE GLENRIDGE ON PALMER RANCH SUED BY EEOC FOR PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION

Retirement Community Failed to Hire Woman

Program Intentionally Discriminated Against Blacks in Its Hiring Process, Federal Agency Charges

     MIAMI – Jacksonville Plumbers and Pipefitters Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust (JPP), which sponsors an apprenticeship program that seeks to produce journeypersons to work in the plumbing and pipefitting industries in Northeast Florida, engaged in a pattern or practice of race discrimination by failing to hire black apprentices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. Additionally, JPP’s use of arbitrarily scored interview criteria to hire apprentices has a disparate

On January 10, 2018, James M. Thompson was a panelist for a Bay News 9 and Spectrum News one-hour live town hall event that focused on the recent movement regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. Veronica Cintron, Bay News Anchor, was joined on stage with panelists Jim Thompson, Employment lawyer, Evangeline Hawthorne, Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Tampa office), Jennifer Green, President of Liberty Partners, and Sierra Bender, a Women’s Empowerment Advocate. The panel engaged in an in-depth look at the #metoo movement. Please click on the link

James Moten Thompson and Kathryn Hopkinson successfully defended their client in a case where Plaintiff (represented by Cynthia Sass and Yvette Everhart) claimed that Defendants failed to pay her overtime compensation to which she claimed she was entitled under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Defendant disputed that Plaintiff worked more than forty hours in a work week and testified that Plaintiff never reported working overtime. The Court found that Plaintiff failed to prove that she worked over 40 hours in any given week. After a 5-day non-jury trial, the

James Moten Thompson was interviewed by Tampa Bay FOX 13 about Disney agreeing to pay $3.8 million in back wages to park workers to ensure compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor found that Disney would deduct a uniform expense which caused some employees’ hourly rates to fall below minimum wage.  The investigation also revealed that Disney employees were not compensated for work performed before or after shifts.  The Department of Labor stated that, “employers cannot make deductions that take workers

Tampa Sex Discrimination attorneys James M. Thompson and Kathryn Hopkinson win trial against Hillsborough County. A Tampa jury found that Hillsborough County discriminated against a male library assistant because of his sex when it fired him. After a three-day trial, which demonstrated that the Upper Tampa Bay Library treated its male employees differently than its female employees, the jury determined that a male library assistant was disciplined for matters not subject to discipline when done by his female co-workers, that he had his evaluation altered unfavorably and that he

Thompson Legal Center, LLC, Tampa’s go-to Sexual Harassment lawyers, want you to have the knowledge you need to fully protect yourself in the workplace. Harassment itself may include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. Sexual Harassment is an often-ignored type of discrimination that has recently gained national media coverage. Sexual Harassment is a form of sex discrimination that usually involves harassment or remarks of a sexual nature but can also include offensive remarks about a person’s

Race discrimination is the act of treating an applicant or employee unfavorably because the individual is of a certain race or because of personal characteristics associated with race. Color discrimination is the act of treating an applicant or employee unfavorably because of skin color complexion. Discrimination can occur when the victim and the person who inflicted the discrimination are the same race or color.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color among other things. It is unlawful

A Tampa Florida federal court allowed a disabilities discrimination Plaintiff to pursue her claim against her employer. In Doers v. Lincare (Case no. 8:14-CV-3168 M.D. Fla.) an employee informed her supervisor that she had anxiety and that she needed a companion dog when traveling. Soon after the Plaintiff informed her supervisor of her disability, the supervisor began writing up the employee, put the employee on a performance plan and fired the employee. Before learning of the employee’s disabilities, the supervisor had given the employee a positive evaluation. The court found

Tampa Bay disability discrimination attorneys see many cases of workplace discrimination that are not only wrong, but also illegal. In these cases, it is important for victims to know their rights.

It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate based on an employee’s disability, however, not every medical condition is a disability. To have a legally protected disability a person must be qualified for the job, and be disabled in one of three ways:

The person has a physical or mental condition that substantially limits a major life activity (walking/talking/seeing/hearing/learning);
The person has a history