Legal Question in Employment Law in Massachusetts

In 2002 I left my employment because I considered it a hostile work environment because I found out my husband was having an affair with a Vice President. We all worked in the same building building and saw each other every day. I had to fight to get unemployment (the unemployment office found just cause for me) and even any severence pay at all. In order to get any response at all I had to send some E mails I found on our computer to the CEO of the parent company to prove that my husband, a middle manager and the vice president were having an affair.I was not in a management position at all at the time. This resulted in some attempt to fire this woman (anecdotal, through my now ex-husband) but she got a lawyer and prevailed and in fact has been promoted to a larger position within a hospital corporation which is taking over several small healthcare agencies and practices including the one I have worked for continously since 2003. I am now a Manager in this small agency and this woman G. will be coming back into my work world as the boss of my current CEO. I expect she will come up with some reason to fire me since I "blew the whistle " on her unprofessional conduct 7 years ago and almost cost her her career. I have had consistently good evaluations with my current employer. I believe my job is in jeopardy because I know too much about her and she will want me out of the way. If I get fired soon after the official "partnership" begins between these two agencies and I believe it is in retaliation is there any way I can approach it legally?


Asked on 11/27/09, 2:27 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Craig J. Tiedemann Kajko, Weisman & Colasanti, LLP

Perhaps. But perhaps not. You need to wait and see what actually develops (or does not develop). If your legal rights are injured or impaired in the future, then that can be assessed based on the facts and circumstances existing at that time. But unless/until something occurs, you have no anticipatory legal claims. There is nothing in existence yet about which to complain.

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Answered on 12/02/09, 4:52 pm


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