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Cut wages, If I quit, do I still get severence?
I am an V.P. of an Ohio based company. Due to lack of funding, everyone in the company was put on a mandatory lay-off for 3 weeks. At that time, it was verbally said that those employees that would go...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 26, 2003 3:35 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Exemption with timecards?
I am a salaried worker making 35k per year as a marketing writer. They recently enforced a new rule for ALL employees (Salary and hourly) that you must clock in and out every day. They said if I leave...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 26, 2003 07:47 AM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Fabricated document
My current boss threatened to fire me and had said that if i tried to claim unemployment he would fabricate a document that stated that i had missed a large number of work days and also had come in la...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 25, 2003 4:48 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

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

please help me !!!!!!!
I am a consultant for a company in maryland and I live in florida. I am owed $ 16,000.00 in wages and expences. I sued the company and now they claim they owe me nothing. I have a contract and bank re...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 25, 2003 02:23 AM [EST]  |  applies to Florida

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

severance and unemployment please help
I recently was terminated from my job, they offered me severance pay over the phone. They said I would receive it every two weeks for two months they would give the checks to my sister who is employee...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 21, 2003 11:05 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Physician Non-compete when practice sold
I am an employed physician working for a large hospital primary care clinic system. Recently the hospital changed the employment contract from salary and bonus to pure production. The non-compete what...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 21, 2003 02:20 AM [EST]  |  applies to Georgia

above
Dear Mel, I was working for a sign company in Pennsylvania. I had a one year non compete in my contract. My employer arbitrarily decided to cut our base salary 9 months ago and changed it from what wa...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 20, 2003 6:46 PM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania

Severance For Other Employees But Not Me
I work for an LLC in Georgia. Our corporate office is in Virginia. A few weeks ago, corporate notified us that they were closing our office in Lawrenceville (metro-Atlanta). They indicated we would ge...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 20, 2003 2:54 PM [EST]  |  applies to Georgia