Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
9th Cir: Stepmother Discrimination and Retaliation After a “Firing Freeze”
A 9th Circuit panel has reinstated a new stepmother’s complaint that her employer discriminated against her because of her additional childcare responsibilities, and retaliated against her after she filed an internal complaint. The panel held that the temporal proximity analysis for the retaliation claim had to take into account a “firing freeze” that intervened between […]