All Questions and Answers about Defamation
Can A Previous Employer Make Extraordinary Attempts To Prevent Someone From Obtaining New Job?
I was fired from a job last March. Reasons given were completely false. Employer attempted to fight unemployment. When confronted that he lied, he backed down, allowed the unemployment. Now, when I am...
1 answer | asked Mar 24, 2010 12:18 PM [EST] | applies to Colorado
Did a co-worker defame me?
I was recently accused by a co-worker of harrassment and that she felt physically threatened by me. She went to human resources who found that her "proof" was not either. But do I have the right to sa...
2 answers | asked Nov 11, 2009 3:32 PM [EST] | applies to Illinois
Defamation or slander or both ???
i am a self-employed truck driver. in todays troubling times it is becoming increasingly difficult to be successful in my industry. After 7 months of struggling to make ends meet working for the compa...
1 answer | asked May 6, 2009 9:38 PM [EST] | applies to Pennsylvania
not sure what to do about a former employer bad mouthing me
my former employer let me go last month. i have been contacted by former clients telling me he is calling them threatening if they help me find another position ( not within their companies, just a ge...
1 answer | asked Apr 7, 2009 5:03 PM [EST] | applies to Ohio
Employer's False claims of
In 2007, I was employed with a local hospital, first as a nursing assistant, for a very brief period, I left after discussing with my boss the discomfort I felt with the position, and then a few month...
1 answer | asked Apr 2, 2009 11:23 PM [EST] | applies to New York
giving out malice information
husband had the choice at his previous employment, to resign or be fired, my husband chose to resign. after putting in numerous applications which he is highly qualified for, and employer is very inte...
1 answer | asked Mar 25, 2009 8:43 PM [EST] | applies to Florida
defamation/wrongful termination
I was terminated suddenly after 6 weeks of work. I wanted a reason, and I was told they would not discuss it with me. I never had any discipliary action or warnings. Management met me in my office one...
2 answers | asked Aug 19, 2008 09:39 AM [EST] | applies to Pennsylvania
Running my name through the mud running me out of Town.
My old employer is going around telling cops and others in the community that I was fired for smoking pot which is completely false. Now the cops in our town our saying they will keep an eye out for m...
1 answer | asked Aug 7, 2008 2:43 PM [EST] | applies to Arizona
Defamation? Former employer falsified medical information in letter to board of directors.
I am wondering if I am a candidate for a defamation law suit. A former employer had me terminated me based on false information from a doctor who I had never seen. This has derailed my career and caus...
1 answer | asked Jun 25, 2008 5:58 PM [EST] | applies to California
An employee terminated for just cause is accusing me of age and race discrimination
What can I do if I have be wrongfully accused of age and race discrimination?
1 answer | asked Apr 9, 2008 9:36 PM [EST] | applies to New York