Employee laws post 10
Submitted by Briana Alcaro on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 23:33.
Recently, I have been studying the employee laws under a closer view. In the Civil Rights Act 1969, two smaller acts were added on to Act III. The smaller acts are protection acts. A protection act states what happens when the law is not properly followed. The protection acts basically say that an employee may report if any of the above acts are not followed, and they suffered. It is in the employees best interest if they read Acts II and III of the Civil Rights Act. "Which among other things will protect and provide monetary damages."-Act III Civil Rights Act 1969 (Last law in act)
Almost every employee will suffer at least one type of abuse. EEO has recently updated the law section and added a help section. The help section gives warning signs, and ways to know if you should file a law suite against your employer or not. Some of the main reasons that you should file a law suite are:
- An employer making comments based upon your physical appearance.
- Verbal abuse is becoming a part of your everyday work routine.
- You find that one or more of the employee protection acts from The Civil Rights Act of 1969 and 1991 are being ignored.
- The employer offers more males better opportunities then the females.
- Physical abuse is an automatic law suite. No employee should EVER be hit, or harmed in any way for any reason.
EEO has recently awarded two thousand dollars to an male employee who was receiving only four dollars an hour. He had two kids and a wife to support. Every week his employer would try and lower the pay. When he contacted EEO about his situation they immediately told him to file for a law suite, and report his employer. What many people are afraid to do, is file a law suite. There is never any harm in doing so. The worst that could happen is the case won't win. In most cases, if a lawyer takes on a case, he is willing go pro bono unless the case is an successful win. In order for a case to be successful, evidence needs to be provided. Evidence basically means pay stubs, witnesses, audio or video that provides good back up against your employer.
The government is keeping statistics on the law suites. Almost 23% of unjust employee treatment cases win. Although that may be less then half that number has risen up a great deal since 1998 when only 12% of cases were winning. (Statistics provided by Fine and Staud law firm) That means there wise a rise of 11% in nine years. If more and more cases begin to win, then maybe employees will begin getting the treatment they deserve.
Based upon personally experience, I am fully aware that when your employer puts you down, you start to enter depression. If ten out of twelve employees get abused and begin to fall into depression, then they won't focus on their work, and most likely lose their job. The worst part is, then are losing their job over the way they were treated.
