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Sales Director Fired For Retaliation For Filing Worker Compensation Claim Awarded Compensation

 

A judge awarded $765,000 to a regional sales director who claimed Hertz wrongfully fired him in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. In 2007, Kyle Barousse, then 43, was let go. Hertz claimed that the decision to terminate him was part of a workforce reduction. The plaintiff noted that all of his fellow regional sales directors were offered alternative positions when they were notified of the reduction in force. Barousse was involved in an on-the-job car crash in 2006. When he was ready to return to work, he claimed that he was fired and offered an enhanced severance plan in exchange for a full release of claims against Hertz.

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Director Wins Retaliation and Wrongful Termination Claim Against Hertz For Filing Worker Compensation Claim - Dallas, Texas

 

A judge awarded $765,000 to a regional sales director who claimed Hertz wrongfully fired him in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. In 2007, Kyle Barousse, then 43, was let go. Hertz claimed that the decision to terminate him was part of a workforce reduction. The plaintiff noted that all of his fellow regional sales directors were offered alternative positions when they were notified of the reduction in force. Barousse was involved in an on-the-job car crash in 2006. When he was ready to return to work, he claimed that he was fired and offered an enhanced severance plan in exchange for a full release of claims against Hertz.

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Professor Gets 300k For Retaliation Suit

 

A professor who claimed he was a victim of retaliation and age discrimination recovered $300,000 in a lawsuit against the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Tenured professor Robert Klebe was in his late 50s when he received a pay cut in 2003. That year, the university hired several younger faculty members despite a lack of budgeted funds. Klebe alleged the university transferred his pay reduction to their salaries. After he complained about the perceived age discrimination, he claimed the university retaliated against him by giving him negative job evaluations and mishandling the licenses for patents it held on his inventions. A jury found that the university had not engaged in age discrimination but that it did retaliate against Klebe in the job evaluations. The jury awarded Klebe $900,000 for mental anguish; however, state law capped the damages at $300,000.

Lawyer Alleges Retaliatory Discharge By OAG

 

An 18-year veteran of the Texas Office of the Attorney General alleges in a suit against the OAG that she was fired after she complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the OAG "gives preference to Christian holidays."

Rhonda Pressley also alleges in her first amended petition in Pressley v. Office of the Texas Attorney General, filed April 10 in the 250th District Court in Austin,that her termination on March 5, 2007, came after she expressed concerns about sex discrimination in a written response to a supervisor's evaluation of her job performance.

Pressley originally named Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott as the defendant in the suit, which she filed on Feb. 13. In his March 4 original answer to the suit, Abbott denied all of Pressley's allegations.

In her April 10 amended petition, Pressley uses the terms "Attorney General" or "defendant" when referring to the OAG.