Your employment contract governs the terms of the employee-employer relationship. The employment contract should, therefore, cover a wide variety of areas, from the benefits the employee can expect to receive to the terms and conditions by which a termination of...
Month: June 2018
Federal laws protect whistleblowers in a Michigan workplace
Your bosses always say they have an open-door policy. Come in and talk about anything that concerns you at any time, they say.So, when you discover that your department is using substandard parts to make your company's best-selling product, you tell the boss. Soon...
Do you have an invisible disability?
An invisible disability is a type of disability that isn't readily apparent to the people around you. Someone who is in a wheelchair or needs to use a cane to walk would have a visible disability. Meanwhile, someone who is suffering from chronic back pain, a migraine,...
Sexual orientation discrimination at work in Michigan
In the not too distant past, if you were of a different sexual persuasion, you probably kept a tight lid on it – only revealing this to your closest confidants. This secrecy had a good reason, not only were people of different sexual orientations commonly...
Company agrees to settle disability discrimination case
A company that manufactures home furnishings has agreed to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit.The company failed to provide a disabled employee with reasonable accommodation and then fired the employee because of his disability, according to the lawsuit. The...