462 U.S. 393 (1983) Cited 657 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that the employer bears the burden of negating causation in a mixed-motive discrimination case, noting "[i]t is fair that [the employer] bear the risk that the influence of legal and illegal motives cannot be separated."
Noting that although a successor contractor "was required to offer unit employees a right of first refusal under the EO and [Department of Labor (DOL)] regulations, this right of first refusal did not constitute a mandated blanket offer to all employees"
Noting that "we must defer to the Board’s reasonable inferences and credibility determinations, ‘even if we would conclude differently under de novo review’ "
Finding employer's claim that it fired employee due to job abandonment to be a pretext because employer knew that employee had filed for unemployment benefits and was under the impression that he had already been terminated and yet the company did nothing to correct the employee's alleged misimpression
Holding that "credibility determinations made by . . . administrative law judge and adopted by the [National Labor Relations Board] (NLRB) are entitled to great weight"
Concluding that substantial evidence supported the NLRB's finding that labor organization "did not have actual or constructive knowledge" of unfair labor practices