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…
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…
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.