can i sue the employee and the hospital for violations of privacy i had reported to the hospital in Missouri where this lady works and they sent me a letter advising not only did she access my records for no business needs but she also print the documents out , Im having a hard time finding any lawyer to help with my case Any suggestions Oh and by the way she got a hold of my insurance info and reported me to my job but she was trying to retaliation which they never found anything

I am finding a labor and employee lawyer tomorrow. Here is the situation I make 26 dollars an hour and I am being told by my first supervisor on the dl that my pay is being lowered by her supervisor. She is not budging, in the state of NY what are my rights. My first supervisor is saying i should make a descion by tom morning at least. do i have rights though? does this have to come from the person who wants to dock the pay to 18 verbally or in writing? Or anything? If anyone has any thoughts or have dealt with this. thanks!

I work for a large retail pharmacy. I have a pharmacist that constantly talks bad about me to my fellow co-workers. She is nice to my face. I confronted her and she just tried to back peddle her way out of it. I asked my boss, who is hers as well, to please talk with her about it and ask her to please stop gossiping about me. My boss is not good with confrontation and i’m not sure that he will or has done this. The biggest problem i have is that she talks about me to other employees and i feel that since she is a management position that this is not right. I have had personal problems in my life recently and this is what she chooses to talk about and seemingly judge me for. I am a great employee….i have been with this company for 10 years……i work hard….stay late…and am at the top of my game. Even she can’t deny that. I am also a union employee. I wanted to get some input from un-biast people on what I should do? A lawyer told me that this was a hostile work place?

Bob Channin, the NEA’s top lawyer said in his retirement speech:

“Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.”

“And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year, because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.”

“This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights and collective bargaining. That simply is too high a price to pay.”
You can see the video here: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/23/teachers-union-big-wig-says-its-not-about-kids-its-about-power

Of course there will be all of those deniers that say since it’s on Fox it didn’t really happen. But video is video, wherever it comes from.

I have worked at this company for a little over 2 and 1/2 months and I think that they are doing things that go against employee rights. I have been writen up for cash handling over $20 both times (But if you ask my previous boss she can tell you that my register has never been off more than a few dollars). There were also other people on my register and one guy that I know of was on there both times. They have no policy for sharing registers which I think is wrong because people could be stealing the money and I am the one who gets wrote up for it. No one else got wrote up and there were at least 3 other people on that drawer. Well the manager posted my write ups on the bulliten board for everyone to see both times and now I have co-workers who think I am a thief. On top of that the manager will not allow you to have a break unless you have been there for at least 6 hours whereas other managers allow you to take a fifteen minute break after 4 hours. I also think that the store manager is trying to sabotage my second part time job because she would only give me 9-14 hours a week until I asked her if it was okay for me to get another part time job (I have talked to her before about giving me more hours and she wouldn’t. I also asked her about the part time job when she was making the schedule) and she said that it was perfectly fine as long as I didn’t wear myself out. Then she posted the schedule and I was given 30.5 hours (I have never gotten this many hours before). The manager also knows that my husband and I are buying a house and I told her that when I found out the closing date I would let her know so she could give me the day off since I have to travel half way across the state to sign the papers because it is a goverment owned home due to foreclosure. She said that was fine but if the schedule was already made then I would have to find someone to cover my shift and that if I couldn’t find someone to cover my shift I would have to come to work reguardless and skip signing for my house. Which infuriated me! I cannot just not show up to sign papers for the house. Also I was supposed to have Saturday off and so on Friday I stayed up watching movies with my husband until 1am. Well at 7:36 am we got a call from my store manager who was very rude to my husband telling him that I was late for work and that he needed to wake me up. So I went into work thinking that I made a mistake. However, she penciled in my shift on the schedule and never told me about it or asked me about it. She was completely rude to me the whole day and acted like it was my fault I was late for work. I have called a lawyer and he said he would get back to me but he hasn’t and it has been at least a month since I called him. Is it illegal to change the schedule at the last minute and not inform the employee? Is it illegal for her to publically display my write ups? Would it be in my best interest to hire another lawyer for this? What is your opinion on this subject and what is happening to me?
I am working two jobs at the moment and the manager at the second job (who is my old boss and knows that I have never had a problem with my register before) has promised that if I quit she will give me 33-38 hours per week.
I have never been talked to about the write ups and only find out they are posted because co-workers tell me about the write ups. I have never signed the write ups either.

The Unions, CEO’s, and banks have all been tossed under the bus. I wonder how much money GM and Chrysler have been spending on Lawyers? Calculate every penny it cost to employee each internal lawyer, add this to the amount they outsource to outside firms, then add it to the lawsuits which are not covered by insurance. Then add this to the insurance cost which represents lawyers (health, liability, workmans comp, vehicle insurance, etc), then add this to the legal cost vendors have to pay which is passed along, then add this to all the legal cost involved with everything employees buy. Then and only then will Democrats realize why the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. It is the trial lawyers they support.

Richard Painter, who spent two years in the White House counsel’s office as the ethics lawyer to George W. Bush, offers the soberest take I’ve heard on whether Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D-Pa.) claim of a job offer from the White House is a scandal or not.

The allegation that the job offer was somehow a “bribe” in return for Sestak not running in the primary is difficult to support. Sestak, if he had taken a job in the Administration, would not have been permitted to run in the Pennsylvania primary. The Hatch Act prohibits a federal employee from being a candidate for nomination or election to a partisan political office. 5 U.S.C. § 7323(a)(3). He had to choose one or the other, but he could not choose both.
The job offer may have been a way of getting Sestak out of Specter’s way, but this also is nothing new. Many candidates for top Administration appointments are politically active in the President’s political party. Many are candidates or are considering candidacy in primaries. White House political operatives don’t like contentious fights in their own party primaries and sometimes suggest jobs in the Administration for persons who otherwise would be contenders. For the White House, this is usually a “win-win” situation, giving the Administration politically savvy appointees in the Executive Branch and fewer contentious primaries for the Legislative Branch. This may not be best for voters who have less choice as a result, and Sestak thus should be commended for saying “no”. The job offer, however, is hardly a “bribe” when it is one of two alternatives that are mutually exclusive.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/bush_ethics_lawyer_pours_cold.html

Last summer my ex co-worker damaged my car, I took him to small claims court, won (by default). Now he went back to his home state, told her mom that he didn’t do anything along with many other lies, she believed him and is coming to California to straighten things out for him. Also, she said she would sue his employer for firing him and his ex roommate for kicking him out of the house. The truth is, he was a terrible employee and didn’t pay rent for a couple of months. He told something completely different to his mom.

Now, I am a little concerned about my case. His mom happens to be a lawyer. Do I have a chance to win against her without hiring a lawyer myself? I feel 100% right, but maybe she can win ONLY because she’s a lawyer?…

Also, there was a note that he could appeal or cancel the judgment within 30 days, which he didn’t. So, I think she’s going to say that he didn’t know about the court or something like that. Which he did, because I was filling him in with every date and every document myself. He was served too, but some lady took the papers, so he can say, he never got those official documents.

Or will she just sue me for damaging his credit?

A friend of mine is in a mangment role. This person took a vacation day. While on vacation someone who doesn’t directly report to this person made a huge mistake (largest mistake in the history of the office). My friend was the fall person and forced to resign without any severance or being paid out for vacation days. This person was a rock start employee getting promoted a few times and worked at this company for about 5 and a half years.

It’s unfair and it’s a rather large company. This person has vacation days and if a lower leverl person who doesn’t report into my friend makes a mistake it’s unfair for the blame to focus on my friend. Granted the mistake that was made falls within my friend’s team. The good news….after a few days the mistake was corrected so it all went away. It doesn’t seem right or fair – should my friend sue?

I recently had my appeal hearing and my former employee had their lawyer show up with the head of hr department. They grilled me and said I didnt notify them of my disease and the problem of attendance due to my disease. Is this unconstitutional? Are my disability rights being violated? I have the right to keep my disease and problem with my disease private, right?