Split 6th Circuit: No Difference Between Terminating Grievance, Holding In Abeyance

(September 5, 2017, 3:48 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — Termination of grievance proceedings has already been characterized, in EEOC v. SunDance Rehabilitation Corp., 466 F.3d 490, 498 (6th Cir. 2006), as an adverse employment action and because holding proceedings in abeyance is not materially different, a trial court erred in ruling for an employer in a case where an employee alleges that her grievance proceedings were improperly held in abeyance after she filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a split Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 1 (Joyce Watford v. Jefferson County Public Schools, No. 16-6183, 6th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16876)....

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