Ganegrei
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As the title says I am seeking to retain legal counsel for a possible wrongful termination suit against my employer. I am being maliciously slandered at work and unfortunately the chief of staff is buying it.
Looking for Wrongful Termination Attorney.
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TOWcritter
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Just went through the same hostile management ********. Got "Laid off" with severance pay....just got the final check......don't play their game.....man up say nothing and walk out the door. It's not worth your sanity....the hassle or and retribution you may be thinking of. Move on.....Move on......You will be a better person for it.....I think that its a new opportunity in my life to start fresh......think about it.....it does work.....good luck.
Mike3888
Mike3888
Wow thought I was the only one. Was released to return to work after an injury I received the 1st of February .Return date on 26 th of August . Went in and told no work. After that week called shop and was still told no work. Wednesday the 4 th I show up to see what's going on and the shop is running with a new employee on my bench. WTF.
robertt822
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Remember MD is at will state, you can be let go at any time for no reason, happened to me, had 19 years, new manager he was a a**hat, but upper management thought he was hot s**t, I lost
File for unemployment ASAP.. If you were really terminated for no good reason you should be able to get it(the UI) and it should help you later.. Plus you'll keep a little cash coming in too. You can almost be sure that the company will appeal it but fight it anyway. I did it and got UI for over a year. Employers hate it because it affects their UI insurance rate..
tsmith1499
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If it was a work related injury, I don't think they can do that but as always IANAL. I would at least ask one though. Something sounds fishy.
If it was work related and you haven't settled yet get a lawyer and rape them. Most places will play you along and once it is settled drop you like a used rubber.
Similar thing happened to me many years ago.
When I was released to go back to work, they put me behind a desk doing clerical work because it was "slow". Meanwhile, the TWO guys they hired to replace me while I was out stayed on the road - one working out of my old truck with some of MY personal tools! (Many of which "grew feet" while I was out, and I only got a few back - when I caught other techs using them!)
In the mean time, the secretary was having an affair with the branch manager's nephew, and her husband found out and her life became a perpetual train wreck. Her work started slipping, so they kept piling more and more of it on me, to try to get me to quit.
I finally just told the branch manager, "Look you don't want me here, and I don't want to be here *doing this* (pushing a pencil and answering phones). So why don't you just lay me off?"
They did!
After collecting unemployment for a while, Mrs. Safetech and I started our own business - on a shoestring. That was 25 years ago.
Never looked back!
It was one of the best things to even happen to me.
One man's "wrongful termination" is another man's "opportunity"!
"at will" doesn't really mean as muhc as you think it means.
having been through management training at my company, they are always bending over backwards to avoid suits like these.
Ab_Normal
Ab_member
Lots of good advice in here. I was in a similar situation. Now I would like to take the guy who forced me out to a nice dinner as a gesture of thanking him for moving my life forward.
Move on and don't look back.
Move on and don't look back.
MikeTF
Ultimate Member
Great story! This made my day!
Ab_Normal
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Les Gawlik
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In Maryland, it is a misdemeanor to terminate an employee solely for filing a workers' compensation claim. However, the courts have watered this down, and it means that if the employer can articulate a reason why he terminated the employee other than the filing of a claim, the termination is not wrongful. It is very difficult for an employee to prevail on such a claim.
Buddy of mine was working for FedEx and got injured on the job, within the scope of his work. He was moving a shipping crate when his bicep tore - nearly a 100% tear.
Long story short, he was out of work due to the injury and rehab, and they terminated him about the time he was supposed to come back - no reason for the termination and he'd been an excellent employee prior to the injury.
The end result was that he wound up with a pretty hefty settlement after he retained an attorney and took them to task.
Good luck brother - I hope that it comes out in your favor.
Long story short, he was out of work due to the injury and rehab, and they terminated him about the time he was supposed to come back - no reason for the termination and he'd been an excellent employee prior to the injury.
The end result was that he wound up with a pretty hefty settlement after he retained an attorney and took them to task.
Good luck brother - I hope that it comes out in your favor.
Mike3888
Mike3888
It was work related, I did some checking and since this is a shop that has less then 15 employees the EEOC rules don't apply. So basically that's a dead end. But I'm not done with this yet.
marylandondeck
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