Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee

Collarspace Discussion Forums

Home Login Search

Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Community Discussions] >> Dungeon of Political and Religious Discussion >> Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee - 1/24/2011 10:30:45 AM

KenDckey

Posts: 4121
Joined: 5/31/2006
Status: offline

The Supreme Court says companies can't fire people simply because they are in a relationship with other employees who complain of discrimination.

North American Stainless argued that allowing a fiance to sue would open the floodgates to retaliation lawsuits from everyone who gets fired who had any connection to a complaining employee. But Scalia said the court was refusing to create any hard and fast rules to follow because the anti-retaliation law is worded broadly

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110124/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_retaliation

I like both decisions of the court. I agree that the guy should be allowed to sue and that the court didn't create any hard and fast rules. The hard and fast rules, the way I had always been taught, were the perview of the Congress/Legislature that created the law in the first place. If the court were to do that, there is no checks and balances.

Profile

Post #: 1

RE: Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee - 1/24/2011 10:35:56 AM

Aylee

Posts: 24103
Joined: 10/14/2007
Status: offline

Wow, a unanimous decision.

_____________________________

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

I don’t always wgah’nagl fhtagn. But when I do, I ph’nglui mglw’nafh R’lyeh.

(in reply to KenDckey)

Profile

Post #: 2

RE: Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee - 1/24/2011 11:09:07 AM

DarkSteven

Posts: 28072
Joined: 5/2/2008
Status: offline

Odd. I never heard of North American Stainless. Must be a smaller company.

Good ruling. In this case, the man was clearly close to the person let go. The court left it up to individual courts to determine whether a relationship could be close enough to constitute a link.

And the article did not mention documented poor performance, so I'm assuming that there was no documentation.

_____________________________

"You women....

The small-breasted ones want larger breasts. The large-breasted ones want smaller ones. The straight-haired ones curl their hair, and the curly-haired ones straighten theirs...

Quit fretting. We men love you."

(in reply to Aylee)

Profile

Post #: 3

RE: Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee - 1/24/2011 11:47:01 AM

KenDckey

Posts: 4121
Joined: 5/31/2006
Status: offline

Steven I think the company did it as retaliation pure and simple thinking that because he wasn't a family member yet, they could get away with it (conjucture on my part) and that is the reason there was no mention of poor performance.

(in reply to DarkSteven)

Profile

Post #: 4

RE: Court says company can't fire employee's fiancee - 1/24/2011 12:38:19 PM

kalikshama