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Constructive Discharge
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Employment Law Worldview
Upholding grievances – kill or cure?
If you make some horrible error in your treatment of an employee, how far can your addressing it swiftly prevent it becoming a constructive dismissal claim? Two quite similar stories…
Employment Discrimination Report
Federal Court: Reassignment To Demeaning Job May Be Grounds For Claim of Constructive Discharge
A federal appeals court has ruled in a Title VII race case arising out of Arkansas that reassigning an employee to a position that a reasonable employee would find “demeaning…
Employment Law Worldview
Constructive dismissal the easy way
Transatlantic Financial Services website Financial Markets & Business News - Here Is The City - The Financial Markets Guide quoted last week a passage from the book "The Making of…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
The Sixth Circuit Affirms Reinstatement in Lieu of $4.4M Front Pay Award on Disabled Vet’s Constructive Discharge Claim
Last week, the Sixth Circuit affirmed that disabled Army veteran, James McKelvey was only entitled to reinstatement and back pay on his constructive discharge claim, in lieu of a $4.4M…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Constructive Dismissals in a Struggling Economy
By Lisa Stam
Recently, a reader asked me whether cutting back the hours of a department of hourly paid employees by about 5 hours a week for a few months would create any…
Employment Law Worldview
A whole new ball game? Constructive dismissal in the sports arena
Multi-million pound salaries, glamour-model girlfriends, and celebrity lifestyles, all for three mornings’ training per week and a 90 minute kick-around on the weekend. It is no surprise that managers and…
Employment Law Matters
Constructive discharge claim requires “intolerable” conditions.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld summary judgment against a bank teller who claimed that she was constructively discharged when she left her job on the last…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Quitters Rarely Win…In Constructive Discharge Claims
While fans of the long running television reality show Survivor may suggest the timing of this post is geared to the events of last night's episode that featured two players…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Jumping the Gun on a “Resignation”
Where a contract for a term of years is involved, it's pretty clear that, just as the employer cannot fire the individual (except for cause), the employee cannot merely resign…
Employment Law Matters
Physician’s constructive discharge claim required only that a protected characteristic played a “motivating part” in hospital-employer’s conduct.
It is generally understood that employees can bring claims for hostile environment, wrongful termination, or even “constructive discharge” – where an employee claims that an employer made working conditions so…