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Need a Livonia employment lawyer? Here’s the local landscape. Livonia has one of metro Detroit’s deepest concentrations of corporate offices and supplier HQs. The disputes I see here are mostly white-collar — engineering managers, regional sales directors, IT leadership — terminated under PIPs, sudden ‘restructurings,’ or post-FMLA discipline.
What employment cases look like in Livonia
Livonia is AAA’s national headquarters, Trinity Health Michigan’s headquarters, Schoolcraft College, Roush Industries, and one of the densest concentrations of Tier 1 and Tier 2 auto-supplier engineering and HQ functions in metro Detroit. The disputes that come from this kind of workforce have predictable patterns: engineering-manager terminations after raising compliance or safety concerns, regional-sales-director firings tied to non-compete enforcement, and FMLA-retaliation claims in large healthcare or insurance employers.
There are no employers among my clients — there never have been, and there never will be. I pair that with a trial-readiness filter: if I take your case, it’s because I believe a jury would side with you, and if I don’t, I’ll explain why and connect you with a better-fitting firm at no charge.
The eight fact patterns that turn into real claims
From hospital corridors to retail floors to the distribution centers along I-96, Livonia jobs produce employment disputes with familiar shapes. I’ve grouped them into the eight patterns below — each heading links to a full explanation of the claim.
Wrongful termination
Retail and healthcare employers are quick with the phrase ‘policy violation’ when a firing needs a label. If the real chronology runs complaint-then-termination, injury-then-termination, or leave-request-then-termination, the label won’t survive discovery.
FMLA retaliation
Nurses, techs, and hourly staff get hit with a particular FMLA pattern: protected absences quietly recoded as occurrences, then a termination ‘per the attendance policy.’ Federal leave law makes that retaliation, however the employer’s software scores it.
Pregnancy discrimination
A retail or healthcare schedule that suddenly shrinks after a pregnancy announcement, a denied request for light duty, or a post-maternity ‘restructuring’ — these are the standard forms pregnancy discrimination takes in Livonia workplaces.
ADA accommodation
Twelve-hour shifts, mandatory overtime, and floor work make accommodations genuinely important here — and refusals genuinely harmful. An employer that won’t discuss a reasonable adjustment for your medical condition, or that fires you for requesting one, is liable under the ADA.
Race, gender, age discrimination
Whether it shows up in scheduling, promotion to management, or who gets written up, treatment that varies by race, gender, or age is illegal — and so is any retaliation against the employee who reports it.
Whistleblower retaliation
Healthcare workers who report patient-safety problems and retail workers who report theft of wages or unsafe conditions both fall under Michigan’s Whistleblowers’ Protection Act. File within 90 days or the claim is gone — that’s the statute’s hard limit.
Non-compete defense
Non-competes have crept into jobs they were never meant for, from clinical roles to store management. Michigan courts demand reasonableness in scope, geography, and duration before enforcing one, and many agreements flunk that test.
Severance review and negotiation
Severance paperwork is written by the employer’s lawyers, for the employer’s benefit. Getting your own attorney to review the release and negotiate the terms is a quick, standalone engagement — and it can change the number on the check.
Where Livonia employment cases get filed
Wayne County cases over $25,000 are filed in the 3rd Circuit Court at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. Smaller statutory claims go to the 16th District Court on Five Mile in Livonia. Federal claims go to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit.
I’m in those courts regularly. My office is in downtown Detroit, roughly 25 minutes from Livonia — close enough that in-person meetings are easy when they make sense, and most case work is handled by phone and email between hearings.
The local context
Cases I’ve handled or evaluated involving employees of: AAA HQ, Trinity Health Michigan HQ, Roush Industries, Masco, Schoolcraft College, Saint Mary Mercy Livonia.
The only purpose of this list is answering the question I hear on nearly every call: “have you ever gone against my employer?” With Michigan’s major employers the answer is usually yes, and that accumulated knowledge of their HR systems and outside counsel gives a new case a running start.
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