A hostile work environment is not what people think it is. It amazes me how misinterpreted, misunderstood, and just downright confusing the phrase “hostile work environment” can be in America’s workplace. Hostile work environment must be based on membership in protected classification. What does that mean? That means that if you’re being mistreated at work […]
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When a Valid, Enforceable Contract Exists:
When a Valid, Enforceable Contract Exists: For an employment contract to be valid and enforceable, it must have a starting date, and ending date and a salary. Most “offer letters” are NOT contracts because the letter usually does not have an ending date. It may have many provisions about benefits, salary, bonuses and so forth, […]
Even if they fire you, if they offer you your job back or some equivalent job, you have to take it or risk….
Refusal of an Unconditional Offer of Reinstatement The employer may cut off back-pay liability by showing that the plaintiff received an unconditional offer and that the position is substantially equivalent to her former position, but the employer can’t predicate the reinstatement offer based on the Plaintiff agreeing to drop the case. See Ford Motor, 458 […]