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Retaliation/Discrimination
Is it possible for 2 co-plaintiffs to bring a single action against a common former employer? My co-worker friend was fired, and I was overloaded with work while being told I would never get help,(I'm...
1 answer | asked Jul 2, 2003 10:23 AM [EST] | applies to Florida
Apply for unemploymet after receiving severance package
The department I work for will be lying off 75-80% percent of its workforce tentatively speaking by October 2003. All who will be laid off will be given a severance package. Please explain to me how l...
1 answer | asked Jul 1, 2003 5:50 PM [EST] | applies to Colorado
Contract change
I am employed by a Chicago based IT Consulting company since November 2002. Now, my employer wants me to sign an agreement that if I leave without giving 30 days notice I will have to pay $15,000.00 a...
1 answer | asked Jun 30, 2003 11:11 PM [EST] | applies to Indiana
Transferring contractor's from one agency to another?
The company that I currently work for is submitting a RFP for a State Contract, and in the RFP the state wants to know how we will handle the contractors that currently work through other Staffing Age...
1 answer | asked Jun 30, 2003 12:00 PM [EST] | applies to Texas
can female boss discriminating female employee be still dicrimination
My boss, ethnic caucasian female humiliates only females, caucasian, of the same ethnicity that report to her(one at a time). My question: Is this discrimination based on gender/national origin
1 answer | asked Jun 30, 2003 09:20 AM [EST] | applies to New York
Termination for my Non Compete agreement
I signed a non-compete agreement with my former employee and then moved to a competitor. During my interview and after I was hired by my new employee they were aware that I was coming from a competito...
1 answer | asked Jun 27, 2003 7:58 PM [EST] | applies to New York
change from commission to salary and territory increase
I signed a non-compete 9 1/2 yrs ago the agreement was mentioned after I was hired and i was paid 25.00 to sign it or i would be terminated. Company recently changed the compensation package from comm...
1 answer | asked Jun 27, 2003 12:21 PM [EST] | applies to Ohio
Who addresses complaints of workplace violence?
I have a question regarding workplace violence: Whose responsibility is it to address a potentially violent worker-a co-worker or the management? My friend works in a nursing home, and one of her co-w...
1 answer | asked Jun 26, 2003 11:07 AM [EST] | applies to New York
Havent recieved my Expenses
My employer owes me $5500 in unpaid expenses I incurred before I left the company. I have called HR, the controller and even the CFO in trying to get my check. 9 weeks have past and the only answer I ...
2 answers | asked Jun 25, 2003 1:28 PM [EST] | applies to Pennsylvania
loan officer transfer question about leads- no noncompete clause
I am opening a new mortgage office. I have a prospective loan officer who currently works for another mortgage company. There is NOT a no-compete clause, so what we want to know is can he bring his cu...
1 answer | asked Jun 23, 2003 11:28 PM [EST] | applies to Ohio