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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Again, a company can let someone go without cause and it is very difficult prove that it was otherwise. Age discrimination, gender discrimination, unjust dismissal.. they are all hard to prove in a court of law and as I mentioned, are costly, time consuming, stressful and more often than not, fruitless as again, it is hard to prove that the dismissal/wrongdoing was or was not due to malfeasance. Heck, they could claim that management really did see potential in that hockey player, claim that the graduate girl was just an economic decision and they were cutting the least experienced staff and that the project leader had, in their opinion, a history of insubordination.
Interesting that you would "suggest" that I am a _troll_ for presenting an opinion different than your own.
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I think you have a very uneducated view on just how difficult it is to prove that someone was let go due to illegal practices, or in a retaliatory dismissal type situation. There's a reason that elite employment lawyers on the defense side charge massive rates, because these cases are very serious and companies that get caught in them need big guns to get themselves out of them without facing massive judgments. Very rarely do these cases go to trial, settlement is almost always the preferred result, so you aren't going to hear about employee victories, but believe me, they happen regularly. No company wants their name associated with a sexual harrasment suit that goes public.
The idea that these cases are lengthy and costly is incorrect in the majority of cases where there is any sort of smoking gun evidence, like say testimony that someone had to be repeatedly chased from the office and that the dismissed employee had recently complained about the actions of a coworker. The suggestion that the company could say that firing the college graduate was "just an economic decision" and have the case go away is preposterous. Your testimony alone would be enough to state a claim, and one that would likely be succesful.
