Employment and Labor Law
Laws, both Federal and State, provide employees with basic rights, including the right to be free from discrimination, retaliation and harassment. Other laws protect the free speech rights of employees or offer relief for injuries suffered during the course of employment. For some violations, employees may seek relief before administrative agencies while in some instance employees may be entitled to seek damages by proceeding directly to court.
Employment-related claims are often complex, contentious and fact-driven. Most employees are at-will employees and are protected by Federal or State law, though others may benefit from additional protections derived from an employment agreement or a union agreement. Some claims will arise from co-worker or supervisory misconduct, while others may come from the improper implementation of an employer's policy or procedure. Claims for unlawful conduct also may accrue at the beginning of employment, during employment or as the employment relationship ends.
As one court explained, "'[b]ecause an employer who discriminates is unlikely to leave a 'smoking gun' attesting to a discriminatory intent, a victim of discrimination is seldom able to prove his claim by direct evidence, and is usually constrained to rely on circumstantial evidence.' Blake-McIntosh v. Cadbury Beverages, Inc., United States District Court, Docket No. 3:96CV2554 (EBB), 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16550 (D.Conn. August 10, 1999)." Fludd v. Berry, 2021 Conn. Super. LEXIS 935, *32 (Ozalis, J, May 19, 2021).
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