Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania
Employment Law Question
I was hired as a manager and within four months it was very clear that the president--name removed--daughter had some clear issues with professional communications. When I brought it up to the HR dept, they pushed to have me speak with the COO. The following workday, the President furiously fired me, went on to scold me for going to HR, for requesting that the door be open when she--name removed--in my office, and so on. By the time she ran out of steam, she wanted me to forget that we ever had this conversation. In the meantime, my department is systematically being dismantled. The president put a stop-loss on my paid time off, but has offered time off to my subordinates. I'm not doing much more than typesetting documents, yet a male subordinate of mine was recently assigned a new project. And I've learned that the president has conversationally changed my title.
Is there anything legally wrong with this?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Employment Law Question
You asked about a political situation at work.
The situation you describe sounds more like political infighting rather than discrimination. Nothing to be done if that is the case. But document everything and determine if this is a hostile work environment, retaliatory, or discriminatory.
An employer has great latitude to treat employees as they see fit. As long as that treatment is not subject of unlawful discriminatory affect then it is not actionable.
Regards,
Roger
Re: Employment Law Question
If you feel you are being discriminated against because of your sex or because of some other protected right age, disability race, religion etc then you may have some claim the information is not sufficent to state any more I suggest you speak with an attorney to fully discuss the facts of your situation
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