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Unlike employees, partners can’t pursue bias claims under employment laws

09/29/2010

If your business is a professional practice like law, medicine or accounting, it may have partners or shareholders who receive paychecks. Such shareholders probably can’t sue for discriminatory practices under Title VII and other employment laws. But when is a person considered a shareholder or partner?

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