Can my company pass over me for a promotion when I have 35 years experience for someone who has none

I have been in Display for many years. My store was closed so I transferred to another branch. After a few years, the lead position came open. They hired a man with no Display experience and no management experience. Earlier in my career I was a Regional and had a lead position until my store closed. They have repeatedly taken hours away from me. Last Febuary I was given 35 hours instead of 40. This Febuary I was given 32 hours. Yesterday I was given 24 hours and lost 2 weeks vacation, personal days, sick leave and now have a position of part time. I have worked hard for this company for almost 14 years. I believe they are trying to get me to quit because I am 2 years from retirement. What do you think.

1 answer  |  asked Jun 25, 2010 05:56 AM [EST]  |  applies to Georgia

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Brad Dozier
Dozier Law Group, LLC focuses on representing clients in employment, business and personal injury cases. If you believe that you have been discriminated against, harassed, subjected to a hostile work environment or treated differently than other employees in your same or a comparable position based on (1) race (2) skin color (3) religion (4) gender/sex [including sexual harassment] (5) national origin (6) age [over 40] or (7) disability [a physical impairment which limits your daily activities], or if you have evidence showing that you were retaliated against for complaining about discriminatory or harassing treatment toward you or other employees for one of those reasons, you may have a claim under federal employment law. However, there must be evidence which shows or suggests that your employer’s actions were based on at least one of these specific reasons (race, skin color, religion, gender/sex [including sexual harassment], national origin, age, disability or unlawful retaliation for complaining of same) and not some other unrelated issues. In that case, I would like to speak with you at your convenience. You can call me at (404) 949-5600 during or after regular business hours. I look forward to speaking with you.

Bear in mind, employment cases are not about what supposedly wrong or unfair things have happened to you at work, they’re about why those things happened to you. If you file an employment lawsuit, you would have the ultimate burden of proving that what happened to you happened for an unlawful reason. The vast majority of bad or unfair things that occur in the workplace which affect employees are not unlawful, only what I have described above are. Unfair, stupid, mean, uninformed or bad management on the part of supervisors, managers, executives and owners does not necessarily equal unlawful activity. Office politics and personality clashes do not give rise to claims under federal employment law. Keep this in mind as you consider your situation.

posted by Brad Dozier  |  Jun 25, 2010 06:31 AM [EST]

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