Terminated employee wins on appeal in religious discrimination case

In Martin v Langford, No. 328815, 2016 WL 7493716 (Mich Ct App December 22, 2016) the Michigan Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's grant of summary disposition where an employee practicing Islam showed that the president of the company made discriminatory statements on the day of her termination. Specifically, the Court reversed summary disposition where the employee testified that on the day of her termination, when the employee asked why she was being fired, the company's president said that the employee did not fit in the environment of the office and was not a sympathetic person, maybe due to her religion.

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Jay Zelenock

Mr. Zelenock grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned a B.A. in history from the University of Michigan. He graduated from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1998, and has practiced law in Traverse City since 1998.