The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has reinstated a jury’s punitive-damages award of $500,000 in a sexual harassment employment discrimination case after the trial judge had taken it away. The case occurred when the employer, an auto dealership, failed to take adequate remedial measures after it was...
Employers may not ask employees their salary history during job interviews under a new law passed by the Massachusetts legislature. The purpose of the law is to ensure equal pay. Massachusetts is the first state to bar employers from asking job applicants about what they earned...
In a lawsuit for employment discrimination, employees only need to provide circumstantial evidence, not direct evidence, says the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appellate court for Massachusetts. In a lawsuit for sexual discrimination and sexual harassment, an employee sued her employer. What was the...
[vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' border_style='' thickness='' up='' down='']A Massachusetts employee has received a mixed decision from a federal judge on his claims for gender and sexual orientation discrimination. The employee, a gay man, sued his employers, Adams and Associates and Shriver Job Corps Center, under the...
The majority of people in Massachusetts identify with one religion or another. No matter what your religion is -- whether it is Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or any other religion -- it is illegal for an employer to discriminate on the basis of your...