Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania
hostile work envirnment
My wife works at a small dental practice as an office manager, front desk person, and marketing manager. There is only two other techs in the practice and the doctor, female. The previous person was forced out after she gave birth. The doctor changes her hours to late nights and changed her attitude towards this person. My wife is salaried at 80k a year and works three 12 hour days and she is now pregnant and the doctor is pregnant. Doctor is due in may and wife is due in sept.
The doctor approached my wife and gave her the option to go hourly based on her present comp. We discussed it and declined the offer, knowing that the doctor was going to cut her hours and thus cutting her comp. The doctor would not agree to a guaranteed number of hours or at least the ability to work the same amount of hours. Again, this was presented as an �option�. Ever since then the Doctor has changed her attitude and is now asserting claims to the other employees that my wife is not doing the job that she promised, like coming in 5 days a week and doing extra work. We have a contract that never outlined any such thing.
My question, is there a case here for hostile work environment or does the doctor exempt because of the size of CO?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: hostile work envirnment
Your wife may have been discriminated against based upon her pregnancy. We will need to know how many employees there are at the office, but please give our offices a call or you can e-mail me directly. I will provide you with a short form to fill out to determine your damages. In the meantime, however, PLEASE keep all communications with her employer. A good way to do this is to use e-mails, recite facts in them as if someone who doesn't know the story might be reading it, and print out copies of all outgoing and incoming e-mail regarding this matter. Also, make sure your wife complains IN WRITING to the HR person at the office. If there is no HR person, then she should write an e-mail POLITELY complaining to the doctor.
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