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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark discusses whether it is worth it to sue your employer.  The discussion covers the factors you will need to consider whether or not to sue your employer, which include the amount of time needed, paying for an hourly vs. contingency attorney, will the suit create a permanent record for new employers, whether or not you mitigated your damages and finding a sense of justice and what that means.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark discusses the feedback responses he received from his first article and podcast Cancel Culture is Illegal At Work.

In response to my first article I received several angry email responses informing I was wrong about what is cancel culture and accused me of perpetuating whiteness. But none of the objections to the article provided a legal basis to support the continued use and protection of cancel culture at work. This is my point. Proponents of cancel culture are not even understanding the legal issues or just ignore them entirely in order to perpetuate their narrative. Social movements must have a footing in the rule of law, otherwise they do not and will not survive. Advocates of cancel culture never cite any legal basis to support its existence but for the fact it just “IS” and we should all heed to it.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark discusses the social movement of cancel culture and why it is illegal in the workplace.

Canceling someone at work, by what ever means either while at work or on social media, is illegal.  Why is it illegal?  To cancel a coworker is to hold a bias against that employee because of their physical characteristics. In doing so, you are committing an act of intentional discrimination and violating state and federal laws discussed in the podcast.  You are also violating the company code of conduct subjecting you to possible termination, wherein the company legally cancels you!  Why would anyone want to do this? It is insane but it’s happening!

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Whether or not you use an employment attorney to review and negotiate your employment severance agreement, you need to know the mechanics of the agreement.  The following episode will go in depth and explain the legal terms in an understandable way.

Generally, all severance agreements accomplish one task, paying employees to release their claims against the company in exchange for money and confidentiality.  Mark has seen thousands of these agreements in his twenty-five years of practicing employment law for employees and executives.  They are all relatively the same in the terms, but differ in their layout.  Most law firms use the same template, so Mark sees the same agreement used over and over again.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark shares important tips from a manager on how to become a great employee.  These tips are gathered from real life employment law cases Mark has litigated and from his years managing employees at his office.  The tips include the following:

Treat Every Work-Day Like It Was Your First Day on the Job

Bad Habits and Practices Are Always Discovered

It's Still a Privilege to Work for a Company

Don't Discriminate

When Your Boss Gives You a Goal, Don't Assume it is the Ceiling--it may be the floor

You're An Adult, Act Like One at Work

Additional Links to further information mentioned in the podcast:

https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful/dp/1101875321/ref=pd_ybh_a_32?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6APPH8VD2FYF70NP0KMB

https://www.psychologytools.com/resource/fight-or-flight-response/#:~:text=Information%20Handout,body%20to%20fight%20or%20flee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark shares a real life story about a successful executive who lost his voice box due to cancer and then lost his career.  Mark guides us  through the initial stages of the employee's successful career until he was diagnosed with throat cancer.  Once the employee lost his ability to speak, his employer intentionally discriminated against the employee in an attempt to force him to quick his job. The employee took a leave of absence under the ADA and the FMLA and was able to reach a successful settlement with the employer.  Mark notes the employee was able to carve out of the settlement the employee's ongoing short and long term disability benefits; he did not waive his claims for STD and LTD benefits.  Mark then describes the difficulty and illegal actions taken by the disability benefits insurance carrier to claim the employee had an anxiety disability and not a physical disability, the loss of his voice box.  Mark describes the administrative process the employee followed to eventually obtain an award for LTD benefits for his physical disability, the loss of his voice box.  Mark concludes by summarizing the multi-layered process that every employee must follow to deal with employment discrimination and unlawful actions by a disability carrier to deny disability benefits.  The employee successfully complained of employment discrimination, obtained a sizable settlement and then proceeded to challenge his disability benefits denial and won.  All of these actions were accomplished without the need for filing a lawsuit or costly litigation in court.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark explores the whether you can sue your employer for contracting Covid-19 while at work.  The discussion explores the Workers' Compensation system in each state and other types of common law claims that may be asserted against employers.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark explores the enforceability of noncompetition agreements on independent contractors and whether they can be voided.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide Mark confronts systemic barriers created by employers that promote inequality of gender, age, race, sex, sexual orientation etc. and protects  bad actors and bad companies from public exposure of their illegal actions and public shaming.   Mark examines the current social equality movement (#metoo and BLM) to find system barriers thrown in their faces of employees by the very employers who publicly denounce sexism and racism.  Employers should be banned from using confidentiality agreements in employment discrimination settlements. We should ban the employment-at will rule because it only promotes biased discrimination in the workplace.  And finally, every case should be made public instead of being forced into the black hole of arbitration.  We need to know how our employers are treating our coworkers and ultimately ourselves.

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In this episode of the Employee Survival Guide, Mark explores the use of nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements.  In essence, employers seek to hide their bad acts behind confidentiality agreements and shield them from public disclosure.  Mark explores a new California statute being proposed that will further provide transparency to unlawful employer conduct. Finally, Mark provides a solution to creating more equality in the work place by banning nondisclosure agreements and two other initiatives he has been raising for several years. 

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