The severance agreement usually arrives at the worst possible moment: you’ve just been terminated, you’re worried about the mortgage, and HR slides a stack of paper across the table with a number on it and a deadline. The implicit message is that this is a standard document, the number is the number, and you should…
You’re 55. You’ve been at the company for years, your reviews were solid, and last month you were told your position was “eliminated” in a “restructuring.” Your duties, you later learn, didn’t disappear — they were absorbed by someone fifteen years younger, or your role was reposted under a new title within months. Some reductions…
Most people who experience sexual harassment at work never report it. Of those who do, many report it in a way that — through no fault of their own — quietly weakens or kills the legal claim they didn’t know they’d need later. A vague verbal comment to a sympathetic supervisor. A hallway conversation with…
You left your job, started a new one, and a few weeks later a letter arrived from your former employer’s law firm. It says you’re violating your non-compete agreement. It demands that you “immediately cease and desist” working for your new employer. It threatens an injunction, damages, and attorney’s fees. Sometimes a copy goes to…
Plain-language guide to Michigan’s Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (WPA). Who is covered, what counts as a protected report, the 90-day filing deadline, and what you can recover.
If you work in Michigan and you think you have been discriminated against or retaliated against at work, the rules that protect you have shifted in important ways over the past two years. The Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) — the state civil rights agency — and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission (MCRC) enforce…
You reported discrimination or harassment to HR. Weeks later, you were fired. The timeline itself is often the strongest evidence of retaliation.
Your employer refused your disability accommodation request, and then fired you. That’s often a winning ADA interactive-process-failure claim.
Demoted, reassigned, or pushed into a lesser role after telling your employer you’re pregnant? Michigan and federal law prohibit this.
If you were fired after taking or requesting FMLA leave in Michigan, here are the 10 pieces of evidence that determine whether you have a winning retaliation case.