Top Five Employee Suits
The EEOC recently identified the five most commonly filed employee suits, which are:
sex discrimination and harassment (30.1 percent);
retaliation (22.2 percent);
race discrimination (13.5 percent);
disability discrimination (12.8 percent); and
age discrimination (8.2 percent).
Sadly, many such cases are fomented by plaintiffs’ attorneys who don’t properly advise their clients. Never mind that in a huge number of cases there is not a scintilla of evidence that the termination was based on discrimination, it is enough that the employee belonged to a protected class. In most cases the employer ponies up some cost of defense settlement amount to avoid the uncertainty of trial.
Thus, no one can advise you how to keep your employees from pursuing legal action, but my first post on this site still remains solid advice on how to ultimately prevail if you decide to go the distance.
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