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Manager files complaint on behalf of subordinates? That’s protected activity

07/05/2013

Don’t assume that just because a manager is in charge of subordinates and champions their discrimination complaints as part of her job, she isn’t engaged in protected activity. It probably is, and any action you take against her can be the basis for a retaliation lawsuit.

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