For Executives and Managers

Though many people mistakenly think traditional Labor and Employment Law protects only non-management workers, there are federal and state employment laws which also protect Directors and other Executives and Management Employees. We have substantial experience representing highly compensated, corporate Executives including Directors and other Managers with their employment issues such as severance, non-renewal or breach of employment contract, termination, layoff, retaliation, whistle blowing, age discrimination, sex discrimination, and other forms of employment discrimination. Below are a few of the cases we’ve handled successfully for Directors and other Executives and Managers. If you are a Management employee with a similar employment problem, contact us today.

Nature of Case	Results	Jurisdiction
Breach of the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing; Delaware Whistle Blowers’ Protection Act	Obtained a settlement for a Vice President and Bank Branch Manager who was discharged after reporting to Human Resources her Regional Manager’s improper transfer of loans and falsification of related records in violation of federal and state law and the Bank’s Code of Ethics.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware
Breach of Contract; Quantum Meruit	Won a bench verdict in the trial of a manager whose long-time employer failed to deduct and remit to the IRS his social security and Medicare taxes for a period of five years and then sued him after it had to pay the government on his behalf. Judgment was entered for the employee, and all claims against him were dismissed.	Court of Common Pleas, New Castle County, Delaware
Age Discrimination; Sex Discrimination; Unpaid Administrative Leave; Performance Improvement Plan	Obtained a settlement for an award-winning, 50 year old, female Director of a healthcare system arising from her younger, male supervisor’s placement of her on a 5 month performance improvement plan (“PIP”), placement of her on unpaid administrative leave, and discharge of her less than 4 months after issuing her the 5 month PIP.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware
Retaliation; Age Discrimination; Termination of Employment	Negotiated a settlement and health benefits for one year for a 55 year old marketing director of a Fortune 500 company who was fired less than 6 weeks after he filed a charge of age discrimination against its president who is 15 years younger than him.	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Racial Harassment; Retaliation; Unpaid Leave	Obtained a six figure settlement package for an African-American director placed on unpaid leave from a global pharmaceutical company after she reported racial harassment in the workplace by her Caucasian supervisors.	Delaware Department Of Labor Division of Industrial Affairs
Denial of Promotion; Retaliation; Involuntary Transfer; Sex and Age Discrimination	Won an EEOC determination of cause for discrimination and eventually obtained a five figure settlement for a 48 year old female director denied a promotion and involuntarily transferred to another department after she complained of sex and age discrimination by her younger male manager.	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Breach of the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing; Family and Medical Leave Act Retaliation; Perceived Disability Discrimination	Obtained a settlement for the director of a billing and collection company who was owed a large commission on a multi-million dollar contract and was discharged five days after informing his boss he would need time off for shoulder surgery.	Out-of-Court Settlement
Age Discrimination; Forced Resignation	Obtained a settlement for a 58 year old director of a chemical company who was told he would be fired if he did not retire.	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
National Origin Discrimination; Ethnic Harassment; Retaliation	Negotiated a severance of salary and health benefits for seven months for an immigrant Operations Manager of a real estate company who reported ethnic discrimination to Human Resources after her supervisor mocked her foreign accent.	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Retaliation; Race Discrimination; 42 U.S.C. § 1981; Title VII	Obtained a settlement for an African-American Senior Operations Engineer employed by a global chemical company for 17 years who was discharged by a Caucasian just 8 months after he became his manager and just 2 months after the client reported to Human Resources race discrimination by his Caucasian peer who twice called an African-American technician,”boy.”	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Disability Discrimination; Age Discrimination	Obtained a settlement for a 53 year old department store manager who was fired by her younger district manager four months after she informed her that she had severe arthritis in her hip.	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Delaware Whistle Blowers’ Protection Act and Sex and Age Discrimination	Obtained a settlement for a 47 year old female Store Manager of a national pharmacy chain who was fired less than four months after she internally reported a younger male vice president after he unsuccessfully tried to flirt with her, made ageist comments about her age, and physically grabbed her.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware

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