All Employment Law Articles about Defamation

Florida Law for Employer Defamation
Suppose an employer accuses its employee of theft, and fires her for that reason. Suppose the employer then tells prospective employers who call for a reference that the employee was terminated for th...
posted by Donna Ballman  |  Aug 11, 2009 6:25 PM [EST] in Defamation  |  applies to Florida

Qualified Privilege Protects Florida Employers from Employee Reference Defamation Suits
An employer is presumed immune from a defamation claim for disclosing untrue information about an employee’s job performance if the untrue information is: 1. Published to a prospective employer; 2. ...
posted by Donna Ballman  |  Aug 11, 2009 5:50 PM [EST] in Defamation  |  applies to Florida

Defamation in the Illinois Workplace
Current and former employees are sometimes targets of false statements made in the workplace. Defamation is a tort action which allows the employee who was wronged (plaintiff) to recover for harm to h...
posted by Ron Schwartz  |  Jul 18, 2009 06:55 AM [EST] in Defamation  |  applies to Illinois

Defamation by an Employer
An employee may have a claim for defamation where an employer publishes a false statement of fact that harms the employee's reputation, unless the employer had a qualified privilege for making the sta...
posted by Neil Klingshirn  |  Jul 16, 2009 2:20 PM [EST] in Defamation  |  applies to All States