I hear from business owners and managers daily and these lawsuits are life changing experiences and could be compared to the stress of a divorce or the death of a spouse. Most of the stories are the same, their employee teetering on the edge of being fired, and the employer trying to help them. Final result is the employee seeking a trial attorney and suing their boss for miscalculated bonuses, or commissions, inaccurate employee ID numbers or misspelled company name on their check. There is plenty all of us could be doing wrong with a 1,400 page labor law digest to follow.
What concerns me more than anything else is our legislators and judges have no idea what is going on in the business community because most are afraid to speak up. This is a shakedown and the business owner knows it and so does the trial attorney suing them. 97% of these cases are settled in mediation as fighting them is just too expensive.
Business owners are concerned that by speaking out they could get hit with another lawsuit, possibly the state agencies will hassle them, and what if it gets out the business appears to be anti labor by fighting the very laws that are hurting both. The only winners in these lawsuits are the trial lawyers.
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