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Please Vote! Curt Nominated for Best New Hub Article

UndercoverLawyer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:11:56 +0000

Curt now has EIGHT powerful articles on Hubpages, each one contains information you should not be with out in dealing with a bad boss or hostile workplace. One article has been nominated as “Hub Nugget”, meaning Best New Article. Please take a moment to vote for the article, “Hostile Work Environment — Why HR Doesn’t Care [...]

Gradual Workplace Harassment Is Not Legal Harassment

UndercoverLawyer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:41:40 +0000

You complain to your manager or to H.R., and what do they tell you? There’s no evidence that you are putting up with an illegal hostile work environment. But you are having trouble sleeping, you feel sick when you think about work, and even though you try not to you spend most of your time [...]

The Abusive Boss Who Got Sued For “Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress”

UndercoverLawyer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:46:36 +0000

Have you felt emotional distress at work because of the abusive way your boss treats you? Many of the people who contact me for help in dealing with a bully boss feel this way, and they want to sue their boss in court for all the workplace abuse he or she has inflicted. When someone like [...]

Is Your Former Abusive Boss Going to Give You a Bad Reference? Here’s How to Fix It

UndercoverLawyer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:10:54 +0000

If you’ve escaped working for a bully boss, but are afraid of what the bully will say to your prospective employers during reference checks, then this article is for you. I’ve been getting this question a lot lately, most recently from reader named Allen, whose email to me is posted below with my response following: Hi [...]

Can Your Abusive Boss’s Unattainable Goals for You Actually be Discrimination Against You?

UndercoverLawyer — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:35:44 +0000

A performance improvement plan (or “PIP”) is not discriminatory by itself. But scores of employees who have bought “Work Laws Exposed” and utilized their free phone consultation with me have described feeling like their boss was trying to “get back at them” by setting astronomically high goals at the employees next appraisal or in a [...]

Faking Disability? And, Lawsuit Caused by Abusive Boss

UndercoverLawyer — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:01:52 +0000

You decide if this police chief was faking his disability: Former police chief for city was no longer disabled, and thus, he was not entitled to continue receiving not-on-duty disability pension; while former chief could not work as ordinary police officer because of injury to left knee, his disability did not prevent him from functioning as [...]

Employees File Complaints, Employers Pay

UndercoverLawyer — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:10:32 +0000

Janitor’s EEOC Complaint Ends With Order to Pay $350,000 A nursing home company, Skilled Healthcare Group, must pay a class of Hispanic employees it discriminated against $450,000 “and provide significant remedial relief [because they] were subject to harassment, different terms and conditions of employment, promotion, compensation, and treatment.” The EEOC ordered the company to pay Hispanic [...]

Meeting “Efficiencies”

UndercoverLawyer — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:00:44 +0000

One reader of Undercover Lawyer contributed the following piece based on his own experiences at a large employer in Southern California. Our guest writer, Brian, followed the advice in “Work Laws Exposed” and filed claims with California ’s DFEH. He has now retained a California attorney to further fight back against the Hostile Work Environment [...]

You Are Not Alone in Dealing with an Abusive Boss

UndercoverLawyer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:28:20 +0000

One of the things I’ve tried to emphasize and acheive with UndercoverLawyer.com is convincing people that they are not alone in their pain. Thousands, if not millions, of people across our country suffer each day at work as they labor under an abusive and hostile boss. Many people blame themselves. Other victims of bullying management [...]

Whistleblower Stops The Train of Hostile Work Environment

UndercoverLawyer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:30:40 +0000

Federal OSHA ordered Union Pacific Railroad to give the welder his original job back, repay the welder for all the time and mileage he spent commuting to the second job he was transferred to, pay his attorney fees and pay him compensatory damages. OSHA doesn’t release the names of employee-whistleblowers, but here’s what we do know [...]