Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. C.G. Schmidt, Inc.

ORDER

J.P. STADTMUELLER, District Judge.

A person who formally accuses their employer of engaging in legally insidious discrimination is afforded protection by the law in that the employer cannot, because of the complaint, take adverse action against the employee. If the employer does take such action, the employee has a separate legally cognizable claim against his or her employer. However, the viability of such a legal recourse is contingent on the employee’s ability to demonstrate that the employer’s action was actually retaliatory in nature and not taken for an entirely different reason.…