Addressing Employment-Related Retaliation Claims

Retaliation claims can be invoked ancillary to literally hundreds of federal and state laws and in a wide variety of circumstances, writes attorney Rosemarie Hill from the Chambliss Bahner & Stophel firm. The Supreme Court recently ruled that even ex-employees can claim retaliation, in relation to a negative job reference, for example. The Supreme Court has also ruled that retaliation claims can be made by persons who did not engage in the original protected activity, but were related to or close to the person who did. In short, companies have ample reason to make preventing retaliation claims a priority, and the writer outlines four basic steps a company can take to do that.