Answers Posted By Christopher Ezold

Answer to Unjustified demotion

Need more facts . . .

It is difficult to provide you with an answer to your question, as some facts are missing.

Pennsylvania is an employment-at-will state, which, for all practical purposes, means that employees have no right to work, nor any right to fair treatment, except in some limited circumstances.

If your husband's supervisor was treating your husband as a scapegoat, or was merely being irratinal, your husband may not have any legal recourse under Pennsylvania law, no matter how good his performance was. However, an attorney would need to know what was the nature of the "statement" his supervisor asked him to sign. If it was a legal document or one requiring that he swear an oath before a notary public, or one that would have had any impact on a governmental investigation, your husband may have some legal recourse under either federal or state law. However, each of the above scenarios include many other issues I have not discussed here. I suspect that there are other important facts that I am unaware of, so the above discussion is limited in scope.

I hope that I have been of some help; feel free to contact me with any further questions.

Christopher E. Ezold

Nancy O'Mara Ezold, P.C.
401 City Line Avenue, St. 904
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
(610) 660-5585
CEZold@Ezoldlaw.com

posted Apr 4, 2002 4:16 PM [EST]