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Entrepreneurs Sue Supermarket Chain for Failing to Make Their Cereal Brand Available for Customers
Small business owners have long complained that competition from retail giants is detrimental to small businesses. A small business owner might have a top-quality product, but no matter what they do, they cannot afford to sell it at prices as low as what customers find at the big box retail giants. In recent years,… Read More »
You Can Still File a Lawsuit About On-the-Job Harassment After You Retire
Being a police helicopter pilot sounds like an awesome job. It almost sounds like the response that fourth graders would give if you asked them to think of the most fun job they could imagine. Jobs that are so much fun that even people who have never been in the workforce would gladly leave… Read More »
Bartender Sues Chain Restaurant for Discrimination and Retaliation
It is rare to find a career counselor who would tell you this directly, but if you have excellent interpersonal skills and you want to make money, you may have a successful career in bartending. The stereotype that almost everyone feels comfortable confiding in bartenders has a basis in reality. Even when customers do… Read More »
Former Bank Employee Gets $4 Million Damages Award in Whistleblower Retaliation Case
Everywhere you look, it is easy to see the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer. Compared to a generation ago, many young people have written off homeownership and university education as prohibitively expensive dreams, whereas they used to be hallmarks of middle-class life. Most people don’t get a chance to see up… Read More »
Former Country Club Employee Sues Employer After Enduring Sexual Harassment at Work
Most employment discrimination lawsuits name an entire company, nonprofit organization, or public sector employer instead of or in addition to an individual coworker. In some cases, an adversarial relationship with a particular supervisor or bullying by a particular coworker is at the root of the employment discrimination case, but more often, it takes more… Read More »
EEOC Files Age Discrimination Complaint Against Moving Company
Moving from one residence to another is a physically and emotionally demanding task. You probably have pieces of furniture in your home in places other than their ideal location because you fear that you will get hurt or the furniture will break if you try to move it, and the family members and friends… Read More »
Jury Awards $41 Million Verdict to NICU Nurse in Wrongful Termination Settlement
Being a nurse is one of the most difficult jobs in the world, and yet, new babies are a delight. You have probably encountered a grumpy nurse or two in a doctor’s office or hospital where you were a patient. At any given moment, nurses are dealing with anxious patients, demanding doctors, passive-aggressive coworkers,… Read More »
Family Business Dispute Causes Restaurants to Close After Decades in Operation
Family-owned restaurants that have operated in the same location for as long as anyone in the neighborhood can remember are a source of feelings of community for the customers, and even more so for the owners. This is why so many children of the 80s agree that the book Little Nino’s Pizzeria, by Karen… Read More »
Video Game Company Pays $54 Million Settlement After Numerous Employees Allege Discrimination
Sometimes the jobs that look like the most fun are the most unpleasant places to work. When you visited Disneyland as a child, you probably dreamed of working there as a costumed character. Of course, having to wear full-body costumes in the summer heat to portray an anthropomorphic animal character is enough to deter… Read More »
Business Adviser Sues Recording Artist for Nonpayment of Contractual Obligations
Some recording artists save their best riffs for songs about how, in the entertainment industry, talk is cheap, everyone is fake, and everything is a lie. Just by reading the titles of “The Stroke” by Billy Squier and “Have a Cigar” by Pink Floyd will have their riffs stuck in your head, with no… Read More »