Daily Record Reports on The Employment Law Group $650k Verdict
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10/24/2011
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In an article titled 'Shooting the messenger' costs Germantown company $650K, the Daily Record reported the $650,000 jury verdict entered by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland for The Employment Law Group® law firm client Donna Jackson.
Ms. Jackson filed her lawsuit against her former employer, Edgewood Management Corporation of Germantown, Maryland after a series of incidences where Edgewood retaliated against Jackson for reporting gender discrimination by one co-worker against another co-worker.
Edgewood responded by disciplined her by transferring her to two separate jobs over 40 miles away and by reducing her compensation by 10%. Edgewood’s management sent emails betting that this would make her resign even though the supervisor requesting the discipline had just given her a performance bonus only a few days before she reported the employee’s gender discrimination complaint.
This ruling is one of the first trials to be decided after a March decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Staub v. Proctor Hospital case, holding that employers will be held liable for the retaliation of company officers who unknowingly retaliate against an employee based on a subordinate’s discriminatory animus.
Ms. Jackson filed her lawsuit against her former employer, Edgewood Management Corporation of Germantown, Maryland after a series of incidences where Edgewood retaliated against Jackson for reporting gender discrimination by one co-worker against another co-worker.
Edgewood responded by disciplined her by transferring her to two separate jobs over 40 miles away and by reducing her compensation by 10%. Edgewood’s management sent emails betting that this would make her resign even though the supervisor requesting the discipline had just given her a performance bonus only a few days before she reported the employee’s gender discrimination complaint.
This ruling is one of the first trials to be decided after a March decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Staub v. Proctor Hospital case, holding that employers will be held liable for the retaliation of company officers who unknowingly retaliate against an employee based on a subordinate’s discriminatory animus.
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