Half of Fired Employees Sue: Half of...
Half of Fired Employees Sue: Half of the employees fired by their employers for any reason sue for damages, leading to discharge settlements of between $10,000 and $100,000 nearly 40% of the time, a new survey said. The survey also found that a majority of U.S. executives believe that substance abuse is the nation’s primary labor and employment problem. The survey, conducted by the law firm of Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, polled 1,014 industrial relations executives at Fortune 500 and small- and medium-sized companies in the public and private sector.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Sept. 13, 1989 FOR THE RECORD
Los Angeles Times Wednesday September 13, 1989 Home Edition Business Part 4 Page 2 Column 5 Financial Desk 2 inches; 47 words Type of Material: Correction
Legal Survey--A survey by the law firm Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman found that about half of the roughly 1,000 companies that returned its questionnaires had been sued by fired employees during the previous year. The Times incorrectly reported in its Sept. 5 editions that half of the fired employees sued their former employers.
