Correa v. Mana Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that protected activity includes “informal protests of discriminatory employment practices, including making complaints to management”
• noting that protected activity includes “informal protests of discriminatory employment practices, including making complaints to management” (citing Sumner v. U.S.P.S., 899 F.2d 203, 209 (2d Cir. 1990))
• explaining that “[i]n order for employees in human resources positions to claim retaliation they need to first clearly establish that they were engaged in protected activities other than the general work involved in their employment”
• listing “traditional human resource functions including: recruiting, hiring and terminating employees; employee benefits; employee orientation; updating the employee handbook; and ensuring that employees compl[y] with [company] policies and procedures.”
• finding no protected activity where plaintiff, an HR manager, presented no evidence that she opposed treatment of employees in a protected class or protested plan to terminate them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).