2-H | WHAT DAMAGES ARE ALLOWED UNDER A SECTION 1981 CLAIM?

The following relief may be obtained:

1) Unlimited monetary damages;

2) Compensatory damages;

3) Future pecuniary losses, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and other non-pecuniary losses;

4) Punitive damages when the employer (except municipalities) discriminated with malice or with reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of an aggrieved individual; and

5) Injunctive relief.

American Bar Association // Section of Labor and Employment Law
Equal Employment Opportunity Committee // EEO Law Basics // Spring 2006

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