Retaliation
Employees have a right to engage in protected activities in the workplace without experiencing retaliation in response. For example, employees have a right to complain to their employers about discrimination or harassment that they or someone they know have experienced in the workplace, without experiencing a demotion, unjust denial of a promotion, or termination in response. Moreover, employers must take all reasonable steps to prevent retaliation against employees.
Under the law, employers are prohibited from discharging, expelling, or otherwise discriminating against an employee because the employee opposed an unlawful or discriminatory employment practice or filed a complaint, testified, or assisted in any proceeding involving an unlawful or discriminatory employment practice. Claims for retaliation are not just limited to “ultimate” employer actions like hiring, firing, and demoting, but may be based on a broad range of employment actions that adversely and materially affect an employee’s job performance or opportunity for career advancement.
Retaliation claims are very fact specific and every case is unique. Galante Law, Inc. can help you evaluate whether treatment you have experienced in the workplace may constitute unlawful retaliation.
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