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Employment Discrimination Attorneys – Tulsa, OK

In order to have a valid discrimination claim, an employer generally must take some tangible adverse employment action against an employee. This may include a termination, layoff, demotion, reduction in compensation or benefits, reassignment to lesser duties, or a failure to promote. Generally, a negative performance review or unreceptive treatment, without more, is insufficient. Moreover, an employer’s adverse employment action must be motivated by an employee’s protected class status (e.g. sex, age, race, national origin, etc).

Though not a requirement, a strong wrongful termination discrimination case generally includes evidence that the employer did not discharge an employee who is not a member of the plaintiff’s protected class under substantially similar circumstances, derogatory comments directed at the discharged employee’s protected class status, and the employer replacing the discharged employee with someone outside the discharged employee’s protected class.