Race Discrimination: Discriminatory Terminations
Lawyers who focus their practice on employment issues frequently are confronted with a case in which an African-American employee has been terminated from his or her job.
Sometimes the reason given for the termination can be justified by the employer by showing other employees of a different protected class were treated in the same manner as the African-American.
On the other hand, evidence may show that the reason given for the reprimand was pre-textual and the true reason for the termination was racially motivated.
An employer may provide other legitimate and justifiable reasons for discharging an employee protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or, by the Tennessee Human Rights Act, such as the job in question was eliminated for justifiable business-related reasons.
However, when one probes deeply, he or she may find there was no real elimination of the job as claimed because of evidence showing someone other than an African-American has been assigned to the same job in question.
Racial slurs by supervisors or other management members may be shown as evidence to help support an unlawful discharge claim on the basis of race.
Employment lawyers in Tennessee as well as other employment lawyers across the nation probably handle more unlawful discharge cases based on race than any other type of employment claim or lawsuit.
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