How To Avoid the Termination Mistakes We Keep Seeing in Lawsuits

Employment law is always changing, but the biggest challenges for employers in minimizing employee-related liability seem to be less about keeping up with new laws than avoiding seemingly timeless missteps. Under pressure from understandably anxious managers, many employers move too quickly to fire employees on leave for medical issues, leading to tricky disability discrimination claims. Employers may be similarly eager to part ways with the employee who has made a shaky internal complaint, even though that may set the employee up for an avoidable retaliation claim.