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Can I sue employer for harassment
Asking for my
daughter….daughter accused
of stealing medication from
nursing home where she
works. She agreed to a drug
test and is innocent.
Employer threatened to send
her to prison. He has no
proof of the theft
Asked on February 24, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, Michigan
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
No, you can't.
1) As a general matter, the law doesn't require any person, including your employer, to be decent, reasonable, or respectful to you. There is no compensation for a person accusing you to your face of doing something you did not. People may be abusive to you.
2) More specifically to employment, employment in this nation is "employment at will." There is no right to or guaranty of a job, which also means there is no right to or guaranty of decent treament at work, and an employer may make employment awful: it may be insulting, cruel, etc. to employees. The presumption built into employment law is that if an employee does not like how she is being treated, she will find other employment. The recourse is to find a different job, not to sue over the behavior.
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