In the case Ra v. Swagelok Mfg. Co., L.L.C., 2021-Ohio-1657, an Ohio Appeals Court found that a former employee could not provide the necessary factual basis for a valid claim of retaliation or discrimination against a former employer.
In this case, the former employee argued the termination was an act of retaliation for filing sexual harassment complaints against a supervisor and that as a woman, the employee was disciplined differently than her male co-workers.
The Court found that the employer took appropriate steps to stop the sexual harassment in response to the complaints and the former employee could neither prove subsequent sexual harassment nor discrimination and there were multiple independent disciplinary grounds for the employee’s termination.
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Authors: Matthew John Markling and the McGown & Markling Team.
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