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Supreme Court extends Title VII’s retaliation protection to employees not engaging in protected activity

  • Sherman & Howard LLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 3 2011

In Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP, No. 09-291 (U.S. Jan. 24, 2011), the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided that Title VII supports so-called third-party retaliation claims, when an employer retaliates against - not the person who engaged in protected activity - but a third party. In Thompson, an employee and his fiancé both worked for the same employer