In an opinion likely to prove useful to employers defending a termination based on a constructive discharge theory, a Houston Court of Appeals held that a resigning employee whose charge of discrimination lacks an allegation of constructive discharge, fails to exhaust his administrative remedies on that theory. In court of appeals opinion, Parker was an
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El Paso Court of Appeals Holds that Employer May Use Mandamus Petition to Challenge Trial Court’s Jurisdiction Where Employee’s Charge of Discrimination was not Timely
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The El Paso Court of Appeals held this week that a Texas employer can use mandamus petition to challenge a trial court’s jurisdiction where the plaintiff-employee failed to file his charge of discrimination timely. A link to the opinion is here.
EEOC Charge Filings Surged in 2008
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The EEOC recently released the latest statistics detailing the number of charges of discrimination filed in 2008. Last year marked the largest number of charges filed in a single year totaling 95,402 charges of discrimination. While every category of charges increased (and the total increased 15.2 percent over 2007), charges of age discrimination and retaliation increased…