Workers Succeed in Class Age Discrimination Settlement, But Much Remains to be Done
Posted June 8th, 2020 by Jonathan Tepe and Leigh Anne St. Charles in Age Discrimination.
After nearly two years of highly contested litigation, the Eastern District of Tennessee United States District Court recently granted final approval of a class action settlement resolving Tennessee auto-workers’ age discrimination claims against Volkswagen. Plaintiffs, represented by attorneys in Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP’s Nashville and New York offices, brought this lawsuit on behalf of older […]
Age Discrimination Causes Substantial Damage to Older Workers’ Careers and Health
Posted June 21st, 2019 by Jonathan Tepe in Age Discrimination.
Several recent studies demonstrate that age discrimination is pervasive in American workplaces, which is causing extensive damage to the health and careers of older workers. According to a 2018 AARP survey, about three in five older workers have either seen or experienced age discrimination in the workplace, and more than nine in ten older workers […]
The Legal Profession has a Uniquely Disturbing Gender Disparity in Job Satisfaction
Posted December 5th, 2018 by Jonathan Tepe in Gender Discrimination and Harassment.
Researchers at Vanderbilt Law School have found an alarming disparity in the job satisfaction rates between recent male and female law graduates, as detailed in a forthcoming research paper in the Marquette Law Review. The researchers discovered that “recently graduated female lawyers are 19 percentage points less likely to state that they are very satisfied […]