Employment Law Blog
Posted on Feb 7, 2012 By Attorney James Sabatini
It is illegal for an employer in Connecticut to terminate or in any manner discriminate against an employee for filing a claim for workers' compensation benefits or otherwise exercising his or her ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Attorney James Sabatini has filed a lawsuit on behalf of his client for wrongful termination. The client suffered a work-related injury. Due to the injury, the worker filed for workers' ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
It is illegal under Connecticut law for an employer to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy. Under C.G.S. Section 46a-60(a)(7) an employer is prohibited from: 1. Terminating an employee because of ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Attorney James Sabatini recently secured a $100,000.00 settlement for a client in a FMLA and disability discrimination case. The settlement was obtained after suit was filed and written discovery had ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
The EEOC has just filed suit against Texas Roadhouse Restaurants charging the restaurant chain with widespread age discrimination that dates back to at least 2007. There are three (3) Texas Roadhouse ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Sabatini and Associates, LLC recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of our client, a former Hartford police officer, against his ex-employer the City of Hartford alleging wrongful termination. Our client ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Verizon has agreed to pay 20 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit charging the company with failing to accommodate hundreds of workers whose absences were caused by their disabilities. The ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
In a case involving violations of the FMLA, Attorney James Sabatini recently obtained a $200,000.00 settlement on behalf of his client. The case was pending in Court for approximately seven (7) months ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
The recent US Supreme Court decision that rejected the proposed class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million women does not mean that Walmart is too big to sue. Nothing in the Court's ...
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Posted on Jun 21, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Best Buy recently agreed to settle an employment discrimination case brought by nine named plaintiffs. The plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that Best Buy's hiring and promotional practices ...
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Posted on May 3, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
The firm's employment lawyers, James Sabatini and Vincent Sabatini recently obtained a $410,000.00 settlement in an age discrimination case. The client was an air traffic controller that was denied ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
The EEOC recently released its final regulations on the Americans with Disabilities Act as amended in 2008. Highlights from the regulations are: 1. Expansion of major life activities to include ...
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Posted on Mar 31, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Workers got a rare victory before the business friendly U.S. Supreme Court. In the case of Kasten v. Saint-Gobain, the Court ruled that oral complaints can form the basis for a retaliation complaint. ...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Connecticut's FMLA applies to employers who have 75 or more employees. Question? - 75 or more employees where? In Velez v. Mayfield , et al., the court ruled that the 75 or more employees need not be ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Attorney James Sabatini recently won a settlement for a client in a wrongful termination claim. The case involved disability discrimination. The settlement includes a monetary compensation and job ...
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Posted on Feb 26, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
Attorney James Sabatini recently became a member of the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association (CELA). The association consists of Connecticut attorneys who practice at least 51% in employment law ...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
The answer is no. If you filed a CHRO complaint and the CHRO did not find initial merit, it does not mean that your case is over. Furthermore, it does not mean that the CHRO was correct in finding ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2011 By Attorney James Sabatini
A recent Connecticut case involving an employee's termination following her Facebook post made national headlines. The case involved a union worker who went on Facebook and posted that her boss was a ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
New York-based Fox News Network LLC, which owns and operates the Fox News Channel based in Washington, D.C., retaliated against news reporter Catherine Herridge after she complained to Fox that she ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
The job market is bad. It is even worse for disabled workers. The US government recently released a detailed study that showed in 2009 the average unemployment rate for disabled workers was 14.5%. ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
A federal appeals court has rejected jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney's plan to move 1,000 jobs out of Connecticut.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's ruling that said ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
On June 22, 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a clarification of definitions under Section 101(12) of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) designed to ensure all employees who care for ...
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Posted on May 20, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
Is an employee considered disabled under the ADA for a condition caused by medication? Well, like most legal issues, there is no simple yes or no answer to that question. In Sulima v. Tobyhanna Army ...
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Posted on May 6, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
In Gross v. FBL Financial Services Inc., the United States Supreme Court changed the standard of proof for workers who sue under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Under the Court's 5-4 ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2010 By James V. Sabatini
The Eighth Circuit joins other U.S. Courts of Appeals that have ruled on claims that an employer violated Title VII by imposing a sex-stereotyped stigma on a protected employee. In the case of Lewis ...
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