Most of our days are spent in the company of our coworkers. While everyone deserves a welcoming and safe work environment, the unfortunate reality is many organizations fail to protect their employees from hostility and harassment. Regardless of whether it’s an individual or a group of people, employees deserve to feel appreciated and valued at […]
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Bringing an employment civil suit as an employee is a difficult proposition. Not only is there the emotional and financial cost of litigation, but the chances of success at trial is relatively low. About 10 years ago, the Harvard Law & Policy Review published a paper that found that from 1979 to 2006, plaintiffs won
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The founder of the Spiggle Law Firm, Tom Spiggle, has designed a 7-step self-help employment law program for workers who have been fired, or are afraid that they might be, to learn more about their options. The DIY video and e-book series, “Legal Leverage,” walks users through the steps to determine whether they have a
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Tom Spiggle will join a list of notable speakers on Feb. 2, 2018 at the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA)’s 2018 CLE Conference at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. Spiggle will join Christine Webber with Cohen Milstein and Alan Kabat from Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC on a panel to talk about discovery issues in employment
Winning a lawsuit against your employer is hard—the odds just aren’t in your favor. In 2009, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published an article about those odds, “Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?” The authors found that employees won their lawsuits against their employers only 15% of the time, whereas
If you’re a government contractor or a government employee, you may be wondering whether you are protected against employment discrimination under the same sorts of laws as private employees. In general, the answer is yes! In fact, most government workers enjoy even broader protections than employees of private companies. Read on to see what laws
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In my previous two posts, I talked about how getting your emotions under control will allow you to get the jump on your former employer when litigation begins. The first addressed what to do when you receive the company’s response to your demand letter. The second discussed what to do when you get the typical
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Have you been discriminated against at work due to your race, age, pregnancy status, or caregiver status? If you decide to take legal action, the starting gun for suing your boss is sending a “demand letter.” A demand letter is pretty much what it sounds like: a letter in which you (usually through your lawyer)
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If you’re having trouble at work and you’ve talked to an employment law attorney, he or she might have mentioned sending a “demand letter.” What exactly is a demand letter, though? A demand letter, as the name suggests, is a letter that an employee (often through an attorney) sends to a former employer “demanding” that
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As we set up in our last post, the most important question that our online damages calculator can’t help you with is the issue of liability—whether your employer violated the law and therefore whether you’ll have a case that can result in a financial recovery. Last time, we imagined that your sociopath boss treated you
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