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Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Constructive Discharge
How intolerable conditions can yield claims for constructive discharge

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Unlawful Retaliation for Sexual Harassment Claim
Title VII retaliatory discharge retaliation requires proof of participation in protected activities

Chocolate Discharge
G.K.I. Foods agrees to $43,000 settlement after disposing production waste water into a sanitary waste water system.

Lexmark to Pay $8.3M in Employee Vacation Class Action
Lexmark to Pay $8.3M in Employee Vacation Class Action

Employee Stock Options
Alleged misrepresentations to employees.

Electronic Data Systems Corp.
allegedly failed to pay employee overtime.

Sprint Nextel
alleging violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Nortel
faces class action over changes to employee pension plan