Can I sue an employer that lied to me during an interview to get me to accept the job?

My entire 12 successful career was with a company that ranked number 5 in the Fortune 500. I had worked in several deferent businesses this company owned and was a valued employee. In order to get the next promotion with this company I would have had to move to an undesired area, or stay in my curreent role and wait on others to retire or move on. I elected to seek promotable opportunities elsewhere and found one that appeared to be promising. During the interview I was lied to and the job was misrepresented. I was told that there was a lot of wotk to be done with broken or no processes, but I had strong teams in place at both locations for which I have responsibility. After conducting a 90 day assessment, I found that this was an absolute lie. I work from 12-14 hour days 6 or 7 day a week due to the staff's incompetenc. I have reached out to my leaders and HR, but to no avail, I am still working 12-14 hour days. During the interview, my current boss told me that the person in the role prior to me left because of the travel and to take care of her elderly mother. I later found out that the prior person that was in the role mother died at least 6 or more months before she left and she left for a job where she does even more travel. In my prior job I was working 40 hours a week for 5k less than what I earn now. I would have never left my career with mycompany had I known that I did not have strong competent teams. I feel like I was set up for failure and want some type of recourse. Can an employer intentionally lie to you and get away with it? The team is not a good time, and I do understand their motive to recruit me, but it;s just not fair. Another thing that was stated to me during the interview was that the company and it's people have a great deal of integrity. I have experienced several situations that prove this to be a lie as well and this also makes me very uncomfortable. Turning a deaf ear to compliance, doing thingd to avoid items from appearing on proxy statements and he list goes on. What can I do? What options do I have?

0 answers  |  asked Apr 29, 2010 7:39 PM [EST]  |  applies to North Carolina

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