New Justices Alito and Roberts provide the majority votes to apply a narrow interpretation to the EEOC filing deadline.
Supreme Court clarifies that “acts of discrimination” - not merely “effects of discrimination” - must occur within the very short EEOC filing deadline period.
The case is Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided by the US Supreme Court on […]

QUITTING YOUR JOB
Common questions: “Should I Quit?” and/or “I Already Quit - can I do anything?”
KEY POINTS:

Don’t quit without getting legal advice first.
If you already quit, a lawyer might be able to help you anyway. All is not lost.

Should I quit my job due to mistreatment at work?
WARNING - There are major traps possibly in […]

MISSED DEADLINESin Employment Cases
What if you may have missed a deadline to file charges or complaints or lawsuits?
Some people might read this website and begin to wonder whether they have missed a deadline. As a general proposition, if you think you have a deadline problem ACT NOW!

Call the government agency that might take your complaint […]

Government Employees, generally
First a BIG Caution, and then a brief introduction to some of the rights of Government employees:
CAUTION: The info on TimsLaw.com is written for the private sector, not the government sector. That’s because so much is (or may be) different for government employees in terms of your rights, your deadlines, who you complain […]

Who is the TimsLaw.com Target Audience? Missouri Residents.

This site is directed at the people who live in Missouri right now and are interested in Missouri’s job law for people that work in Missouri. Maybe they got fired from a job in Missouri, or are currently having job problems in their Missouri job.
I have some Questions […]

Complaints:
Making Proper and Effective Complaintsand Gaining Protection Against Retaliation
Like a Catch-22, both what you say - and also what you don’t say - may come back to haunt you in court
Your Complaint could be the foundation of a potential lawsuit. In a lawsuit, you will be grilled about the exact things you said (and did […]

Why I caution against you considering general information to be legal advice
“Legal Advice” is different than general legal information
The essence of legal advice is that a lawyer learns the details of your specific story and then designs a strategy to try to make it more likely that you will get the result you want in […]

Constructive Discharge
Being forced to quit a job
Sometimes a resignation is not really voluntary choice. Sometimes we are forced to quit jobs due to mistreatment. Was our resignation really a “firing without good cause” through being “forced to quit”?
UPDATE: On June 14, 2004 the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision setting some new standards […]