Ohio Questions and Answers

Retaliation? Please help...
I will try to be brief. I was fired after eight years of service. I had an excellent attendance and performance record. Several months prior to being terminated, I filed a sexual harassment claim agai...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 25, 2003 03:13 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Loss of job due to inability to work with a hostile employee
I was recently released from my position in customer service. I had not quite been with the company for a year. My direct supervisor had made for a "hostile" work environment. The owner was very aware...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 22, 2003 1:06 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Hostile work environment based on race
My sister was recently terminated from her job of 22 years. She suffers from clinically diagnosed depression, this was diagnosed 7 years ago. She transferred to a new job, where she was the only cauca...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 4, 2003 10:41 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Employer denies involuntary leave in layoff with severance choice
I was recently laid off and offered a severance package. There are two options, take a lump sum payment or a weekly payment. If I take the lump, my employer states that they will consider this a volun...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 25, 2003 4:24 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

age, discrimination
What a great service you offer. I am 52, employed for 12 years as an outside salesperson. I was the #1 sales person 5 years. I was fired they say because they are reducing the outside sales force. In ...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 25, 2003 09:44 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can you be forced to use vacation time for being sent home early from work?
My company just instituted the rule that when we are not busy, employees will be sent home and their vacation time will be used to pay for the time off. I feel this is illegal, not to mention unethica...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 17, 2003 10:40 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Unemployment denied
My husband voluntarily left his employer of 23 yrs to seek employment with another company. After 3 months with this company, he was laid off. Upon filing for unemployment, we found out that he is ine...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 15, 2003 10:27 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Is contract enforceable if employer did not sign it?
My husband was recently layed off from the tv station he was working for. When they initially hired him, they gave him a 2 year contract that stated if he was terminated for no just cause, they had to...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 13, 2003 08:25 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

FMLA retaliation/perceived disability/hostile work environment/intentional infliction of emot stress
Hi! I have an ongoing problem w/ my employer, a medium-sized city in northeast Ohio. I have been using FMLA every once in a while for the last few years due to a depression condition. All of my abscen...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 12, 2003 06:25 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Hostile work enviroment
My question concerns eligibilty for unemployment benefits. My wife has worked for a privately owned company for the past 4 years. She has been extremely successful with her sales, but was recently sev...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 10, 2003 1:05 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio