Flait v. North American Watch Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that one crucial issue in a retaliatory termination claim is the reasonableness of the employee’s belief that he was opposing unlawful activity
• noting that “[l]awsuits claiming retaliatory employment termination . . . are analogous to federal Title VII claims, and are evaluated under federal law interpreting Title VII cases”
• finding nexus established where employee “was terminated only a few months after” he engaged in protected activity
• reversing judgment for employer on motion for summary adjudication where circumstantial evidence of causal link raised issue of fact
• “ ‘[I]t is good faith and reasonableness, not the fact of discrimination, that is the critical inquiry in a retaliation case.’ ”
• sufficient causal link where supervisor who terminated employee had made sexist com-meats to another employee and fired employee five months after a confrontation

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