All Questions and Answers about Defamation

Lying to the Police
I have recently applied for a police officers position, listing one of my former employers job as a reference. I had to list all previous employers for the Personal History Questionnaire, during my Ba...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 7, 2008 3:01 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

defamation/discrimination
my wife boss at her present job has been making false statements about her (isnt doing her job, falsely accusing her when there are issues, accusing her of theft, etc.) to other employees and also cus...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 18, 2008 09:57 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Wrongful dismissal
Working as a contractor at two different sites, I was "dismissed" from the assignment based on false allegations and no follow up to my rebuttal pertaining to the allegations. I have now been out of w...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 8, 2008 2:18 PM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania

negative references, defamation, other
I worked for two retail establishments part-time in 2001 where the managers of each were related to each other. I quit at one place and then wrote a letter to the company stating why and that they sho...
1 answer  |  asked Oct 30, 2007 5:27 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Defamation & Retaliation
I am a para in a school district. The mother of a former student of mine called my boss(who is the special ed.director of the district)to tell her she wanted me to teach her son again. She says the di...
1 answer  |  asked Sep 25, 2007 3:21 PM [EST]  |  applies to Kansas

My Boss told a fellow employee that I slept with his wife.
This may seem like an odd situation. My Manager(boss) told a fellow employee that I slept with his wife( x wife or seperated)He based this on the fact that we where at the same place at the same time....
1 answer  |  asked Aug 7, 2007 07:32 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Defamation / harrassment Case potential?
I work in a large sales organization and I am at the top of my field. We reguraly attend semiannual meetings. One employee who is essentially on the cultural level of nascar and pro wrestling inferred...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 24, 2007 11:18 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Defamation in an unrelated court case
I read in one of your answers that it is legal for an employer to include any statements they want in a court case, and this will not count as defamation. Recently I found out that some horrific accus...
1 answer  |  asked May 23, 2007 7:41 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

Employee slandered and has proof
I had been working as a server at a restaurant in Orlando for almost 2 years. My file was clean. I actually had good compliments on my service and attitude. I became pregnant and into my fifth month I...
1 answer  |  asked May 8, 2007 12:23 PM [EST]  |  applies to Florida

Wrongful termination/slander
Hi MEL.... This is an awesome website. My question is for a serverance pay agreeemnt can I change some of the language in the agreement for example. The agreement is standard and does not include the ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 6, 2007 11:41 AM [EST]  |  applies to California