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Employer or Agency?
I'm often faced with potential employers who only want my work done as "freelance". The gist of the arrangement is "I'll pay you after I (the employer) get paid". I am aware of the pitfalls of this wi...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 5, 2004 9:30 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can I be fired for this?
I was employed at a resteraunt and the owners other resteraunt . They were cutting back hours, so I found another job. The owner, when he found out that I was going to weekends only, stated "If he is ...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 5, 2004 5:57 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

charge and retaliation
first off i was put off work in Nov of 2003until i got an update from my dr. on some restrictions that i have been working with for 2 1/2 years. I was off for 3 1/2 weeks with no pay. I filed a charge...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 4, 2004 06:47 AM [EST]  |  applies to Indiana

Emplyer's Refusal to give Letter of Termination
My friend recently got a letter from the NYS Dept. of Labor telling her that her request for unemploymeny benefits was denied because her former employer contends that she voluntarily quit on Dec. 24,...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 2, 2004 11:34 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Discriminatory Layoof
I am an Indian on H1-B Visa and have been recently laid off. Earlier in Sept 2003 I had given a complain against my Manager to the VP of HR for intimidation, personal comments on my beard and appearan...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 2, 2004 10:23 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

Discrimination, Retaliation?
I am a national Mexican; since I filed a discrimination charge back in 2002, and complained to upper management about lack of advancement and lack of pay increase (June 2003 and December 2003) my empl...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 2, 2004 10:05 PM [EST]  |  applies to Arizona

Wages Problem
Hello Sir/Madam, I am on H1B of one of the local IT company, who is into contracting of IT consultants to different clients on project basis. I have reached USA 2 months back and working my employeer ...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 2, 2004 6:30 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Pattern of retaliation
I filed a national origing discrmination charge with the EEOC 17 months ago. Since then, I have been demoted twice and denied of a pay increase. The first demotion came after 8 months of filing the ch...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 2, 2004 04:41 AM [EST]  |  applies to Arizona

Sexual Harrassment, Retaliation, Hositle working environment
About a year ago, I accepted an opportunity within my company to move into another role within the Finance Department. (Mar 03) The Sr. Finance Analyst was a man who at the time was not my direct boss...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 31, 2004 11:50 AM [EST]  |  applies to Arizona

enforceable geography
Can an employer enforce a non-compete in their entire coverage area even if the individual employee never worked in the territory they are seeking to work in now? That is to say that the employer is a...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 30, 2004 2:01 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois