Employee wins case even though she was late 45 times. Here’s why!

[TheScandoman]

Also, if she was tardy 44 times, and they didn't fire her, then punctuality really was NOT important, and it's obviously just an excuse!

[MrDlt]

My corporate lawyer says the person who documents everything as it happens is the eventual winner.

[kjb]

I was told that by my manager once. My shift started at 6:45AM. My tardies were never over 2-3 minutes. I flat out told her that seeing as how some of my coworkers around here didn't think their shift is supposed to start until 7 or 7:15, if I get fired over 2 minutes, then they will be walking out with me. She was known to play favorites with certain people, so the subject of me being tardy was never brought up again.

[gmoney]

If being late was really an issue, she should've been fired a long time ago

[tom]

My manager was constantly late, only ten minutes mind you but one day I clocked in a minute late and he literally had the nerve to say something. I wanted to punch him so bad

[ThankHeaven]

This is why it’s important to document everything. Always advocate for yourself!

[deltablaze]

If you wait until somebody has been late 45 times to fire them, I think your attendance policy is a joke.

[Littlefoot.]

Its up to her to prove her claim so she must have had something.

[jcombs]

I was on a job where the White manager said I was late looking at the office clock near her desk. The office had two different clocks with different timings. After I was fired in my lawsuit I presented records where I documented MY arrival time which was timely . The lawyers for my former employer figured out that the White manager was applied punctuality rules differently as timing on all office clocks were different. If your supervisor is out to do you harm don't quit. Document! Get a lawyer.

[bebop]

If anybody reads the details of the lawsuit it’s really obvious that being late was just a pretext, there was a white employee who was being repeatedly racist to her and when she complained to HR she got fired instead of him and Equinox used her being late as an excuse (even though the white employee who she complained about was late even more times than she was, which is where the disparative impact comes in). The timing doesn’t make any sense, because if it was such a problem that she was late, why would she never have been disciplined for it until she had already been late more than 40 times, like if it was really an issue she would’ve already been written up or fired way before this. It’s obviously because they thought it was easier to fire her than to deal with the racist guy. Her name is Röbynn Europe if you want to Google her and read the details of the case. Retaliatory firing is not protected by at-will employment laws, her legal case was very solid and she deserved to win. And she didn’t ask for $11 million either, the reason Equinox had to pay that amount was due to New York State laws, almost all of the money went to the state

[ChrisOdinson]

Ever since the hot coffee story I don't trust anything a company says against an actual human.

[ImTooDC]

Once her attorney requested a forensic analysis of the company’s time records and seen that multiple employees were late just as much or more and wasn’t fired, that was it for them. Even if they were only one minute late compared to her five minutes.

This is just my hypothesis. I’m not saying any of this happened.

[FigiMarie]

She kept receipts of inappropriate interactions with coworkers and
It was said that her white counterparts were late as much it not more than her.

[CorbiniteVids]

A casual listener also doesn't know how late she was on those times or how long she had worked. Being just a little late 45 times over the course of a few years isn't bad for instance. Most of us don't know. This company seems to only be playing a pr game here

Edit: y'all are really focusing in on ONE detail of my comment ignoring the fact that I'm specifically saying that we don't know any of those details. There's a difference between being 10 minutes late 45 times, and being a minute late that many. Y'all are hyperfocusing in only on the number but not on how late those tardies actually were. And it's telling that y'all want to condemn her without actually knowing anything about what's going on. THAT'S the point. The point is that y'all are not involved and you don't have the details and you STILL have decided that this black woman needs to be punished. The only information we have is that her white coworkers were not reprimanded for similar behavior. Y'all have decided that there MUST be some extra information there to make her guilty and deserving of punishment and seem to be getting legitimately angry at the idea that we don't know enough to judge either way. I am not saying that she's definitely deserving of compensation, i am simply saying that i can see a world where that is the case, because I don't know. But that's still too soft on her i guess. So why is that? Why do you NEED her to be deserving of punishment? Sit with that on your own instead of leaving the exact same comment that misses the point entirely, yet again.

[sunnym.]

Had one girl brag about having 116 clock in tardy points...while some of folks got threatened with termination at 20.
Her inability to show up on time impacted our ability to complete our work and we often had to stay late.
They finally fired her months later and sent an email out about following the attendance policy.
This was special treatment that no one else received and we complained often.
Even outright rebellion in meetings, "she's of course not here on time, I'm not taking points for being 1 minute late while she wanders in at 8:30-9 and impacts our schedules."

[ajgolden]

If she was late 45 times, her supervisor should have been fired also. They were obviously not doing their job managing! BS to the 3rd degree.

[Beanz-on-Toast]

If a company actually cared about tardiness, they wouldn't have allowed her to get away with it 45 times

[michaelhogan]

11+ million!!! She proved a lot of bad behavior.

[ProductCreationFormula]

What if she was the only one who was late consistently? In my job of 14 years, I think I was late about 3 or 4 times. Being late is usually avoidable. It has nothing to do with race. Now, if she had been late 3 out of 5 days a week, then they have a right to treat her differently. Especially if no one else is consistently late like her.

[lisaa]

if the time where mcdonalds had people mocking a woman for suing them because her coffee was too hot hasnt wisened you all to the fact that companies dont care about you then idk what will. she was made a laughingstock and the public mocked her. just like whats happening here. they only care about their image, they don't give a shit about you at all