Kingsley & Kingsley Lawyers is a California employment law firm that assists employees with
wrongful termination lawsuits and other employment law related issues.
If newsrooms start pressuring employees to do unsafe things, you're going to see your first drone based
wrongful termination lawsuits," Waite said.
The Dallas Morning News' David Tarrant, Sue Ambrose and Holly Hacker wrote that, like the scandal at Penn State University, the fallout at Baylor will likely extend beyond the administrative shakeup and could include things like "
wrongful termination lawsuits, federal investigations, victim settlements and scrutiny from the National Collegiate Athletic Association."
Letting employees go may open homeowners to
wrongful termination lawsuits. To help avoid a suit, a written agreement between homeowners and employees should contain an "employment at will" clause that allows termination without cause for any reason.
Conroy's practice focuses on the representation of business clients in complex disputes, discrimination and
wrongful termination lawsuits, and product liability litigation.
But if that is the case, then why are there so many
wrongful termination lawsuits? This article explains some of the exceptions to the at-will policy and how to prevent wrongful termination suits.
She declined to say if they would file
wrongful termination lawsuits.
TABLE 2 Costs for company of 1,000, laying off 100 employees Cost with Cost without high-quality Contributing factors outplacement outplacement Savings Unemployment insurance $540,000 $360,000 $180,000 Health insurance, 12 wks 150,484 150,484 0 Health insurance, 20 wks 250,807 173,893 6,914 Absenteeism 1,380,000 883,200 496,800 Turnover 4,250,000 2,430,000 1,820,000
Wrongful termination lawsuits 1,487,624 91,829 1,395,795 Total (20 wks) 7,908,431 3,938,922 3,969,509 Note: Costs for company laying off 100 employees, at an average salary of $50,000.
In fact,
wrongful termination lawsuits often force employers to reimburse employees with thousands of dollars in back pay--and, if juries see fit, punitive damages that may be in the millions.
"Stave off invasion of privacy and
wrongful termination lawsuits by securing employees' written consent to have their electronic messages read," says Nancy Flynn, author of The ePolicy Handbook and executive director of The ePolicy Institute.
Second only to shareholder suits,
wrongful termination lawsuits account for 13% of all lawsuits (Jones, 1998).
As stated above, however, most
wrongful termination lawsuits also include claims of discrimination, harassment or retaliation.
