Miami, FL asked in Employment Discrimination for Florida

Q: Is it considered discrimination if an employee refuses to orient a new hire bc of their national origin?

Is it libel if employees make written statements to a supervisor that a new hire is incompetent in skills/ tasks that they never observed the new hire perform? And bc of these written statements the new hire is terminated.

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Kevin Sanderson
Kevin Sanderson
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  • Employment Law Lawyer
  • Sarasota, FL
  • Licensed in Florida

A: It is discriminatory. One caution: some courts have held that the employee doing the discriminating must be a supervisor to that employee who makes adverse employment decisions/actions against the employee discriminated against. In other words, lateral co-workers cant discriminate. This is frustrating and not very realistic, but these ruling have been allowed o stand.

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