What would be a better&"legal" way of proving verbal/emotional abuse? It's always their word against yours&I've found that the existence of a tape recording of their admission of what they're doing that is illegal makes them back done&at least try to work with you. I'm not writing this as a flame, I'm just curious as to what else you can do that creates concrete evidence. I'm looking for a job now&need to know this stuff so I don't get abused again.
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quote=skymonk;896850]Sorry to hear about your employment troubles, especially now with our economy so bad. I don't know about the laws myself-so I'm going to be looking them up! I had a situation where I was being verbally&emotionally abused by my boss&when I requested termination after I'd found another job she point blank told me she never would have hired me if she'd known I was bipolar. Wish I could have tape recorded that to play in a court room. Unfortunately it seems like there are so many loopholes in employment laws here that YOU have to prove THEY discriminated when they're usually very crafty&have better lawyers because they can afford them than you can. They can make up whatever excuse they want for why they fired you&YOU have to prove THEY lied. Hard to do. Have you thought of looking up an ombudsman? They're community leaders that stand up for those who need help-mostly for the elderly, but they may for your situation too. If you can, I'd tape record any conversations you have with your bosses' whether they know it or not&definitely try to create a paper trail of all of both of your actions. Hope this helps&believe me I know how hurtful this is. It's ridiculous how big of a stigma there is on mental illness in this day&age in the States. Best of luck&definitely check with a lawyer.  |
Tape recording anybody without their knowledge to use against them for any reason is called "entrapment" and cannot be used for legal purposes.
Never a good idea.[/quote]