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Employment Discrimination Remedies And Tax Gross Ups, Gregg D. Polsky, Stephen F. Befort
Employment Discrimination Remedies And Tax Gross Ups, Gregg D. Polsky, Stephen F. Befort
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This article considers whether a successful employment discrimination plaintiff may be entitled, under current law, to receive an augmented award (a gross up) to neutralize certain adverse federal income tax consequences. The question of whether such a gross up is allowed, the resolution of which can have drastic effects on litigants, has received almost no attention from practitioners, judges, and academics. Because of the potentially enormous impact of the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on discrimination lawsuit recoveries, however, the gross up issue is now beginning to appear in reported cases.
The three principal federal anti-discrimination statutes - Title VII, the …
Affirmative Action In The Workplace: The Signficance Of Grutter?, Rebecca H. White
Affirmative Action In The Workplace: The Signficance Of Grutter?, Rebecca H. White
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The Supreme Court's decision last term in Grutter v. Bollinger answered important questions about the affirmative use of race in the educational context. I have been asked by the editors of the Kentucky Law Journal to explore the impact the decision is like to have on affirmative action in a different context--employment. Simply put, to what extent does Grutter affect a public or private employer's ability to voluntarily adopt an affirmative action plan in order to diversify its workplace? The short answer, of course, is that the Grutter decision does not directly apply to the affirmative use of race or …