Fitzpatrick on Employment Law

We have written two blogs (here and here ) over the past several years on the subject of single-incident acts constituting the basis for a hostile work environment (HWE) claim.  A host o...

http://robertfitzpatrick.blogspot.com/2016/04/courts-continue-to-expand-what-single.html

Valentine, Valentine, Valentine O’ won’t you please be mine You’re such a sweetheart With love full of sweet tarts This Valentine’s day is particularly sweet for the plaintif...

http://robertfitzpatrick.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-fourth-circuit-loves-plaintiffs.html

            On January 6, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Lorna G. Schofield of the Southern District of New York rejected a proposed FLSA settlement agreement which contained a no-re...

http://robertfitzpatrick.blogspot.com/2016/01/never-darken-my-door-clause-stricken-by.html

                Among Title VII’s less-used provisions is its prohibition of discrimination on the basis of “national origin”, but the New Mexico Court of Appeals’ recent decisi...

http://robertfitzpatrick.blogspot.com/2015/12/court-recognizes-claim-of-national.html

After the Supreme Court’s decision in University of Tex. Southwestern Med. Ctr. v. Nassar, 133 S. Ct. 2517 (2013), holding that but-for causation is the standard for proving retaliation in...

http://robertfitzpatrick.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-cats-paw-takes-swipe-at-but-for.html