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When someone feels that they have been terminated or let go from their job for a reason that was unlawful, they may be able to file a wrongful termination claim against their employer. Someone is considered to have been unlawfully terminated if they were discharged in...
On Aug. 28, an Indiana Court of Appeals judge found that an employee did not violate a non-compete agreement with his former employer. The employee signed the non-compete agreement on Jan. 24, 2008, when he joined the company. The agreement would reportedly prevent...
Residents of Indiana might be interested to learn about the federal laws concerning age discrimination in the workplace. One of the most well known laws that can help to protect workers from employer age discrimination is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act that...
Sex discrimination occurs whenever a decision is based solely on a person's gender. For example, paying a woman less than a man to do the same job would likely constitute sex discrimination. Giving a man a promotion simply because the boss prefers that a man be...
It can be extremely difficult to perform well at work when faced with wrongful discrimination. Sadly, this is something that far too many employees in Indiana deal with on a daily basis. Sometimes, workers even experience a wrongful termination based on...
Indiana workers with disabilities are protected from discrimination in the workforce by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Under the ADA, an employer with fifteen or more employees is required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities. The...
Indiana readers might be interested in the details of an Aug. 19 decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a lower court ruling in a disability discrimination lawsuit. The court found that a woman who had been ordered into counseling by her employer...
For many residents of Indiana, family comes first. But what happens when your obligation to your family comes into conflict with your professional responsibilities? The chances are that you need that job to support the ones you love. However, sometimes you may need to...
In an employment-at-will state such as Indiana, many workers can be fired for almost any reason. Nevertheless, there are limits and one thing employers are not permitted to do is to fire someone in a retaliatory fashion. For example, employer retaliation includes...
Indiana residents might be interested to learn that a religious discrimination lawsuit was filed against the supermarket chain Food Lion on Aug. 20. The complaint was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a former Food Lion employee...