The Employment Law Reporter

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter:

• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision dismissing employment discrimination claims brought by a former victim witness coordinator against her former employer – the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.
• The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a sportscaster against his former employer must be arbitrated.
• A federal judge in New York has granted a defense motion to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act of the plaintiff’s employment discrimination claims.
• The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment in favor of two supervisors in a lawsuit brought by a maintenance worker alleging employment discrimination, finding that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that he had been treated differently from other employees.
• The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, holding that the defendant enjoyed “functional immunity from suit” for the plaintiff’s claims.

Kenneth A. Novikoff