Michigan Employment Legal Questions

They can terminate your employment, but may be guilty of violating the federal law protecting employees from illegal discrimination, including background checks, and in your case probably an age discrimination claim. You need to seek the advice of a competent employment attorney as you only have 120 days from the date of termination to file an EEOC claim.... Read More

If "This is a question for law school research," you should do your own research, and not rely on lawyers to answer pontificate about subjects they know nothing about. There is no universal answer to your question, applicable to every application for services. I suspect this is proscribed by the individual law for each program. Social Security likely has a law about what must be on their application. Drivers Services likely has a separate law for what must be on a drivers license, etc. In states where gay marriage is not permitted, surely they have to ask on the application.... Read More

When your supervisors or lower level HR reps are not correcting things that they should be doing (like health insurance), it is best to go over their heads to either the next level up, or directly to the manager or VP.  This is especially the case where you are facing serious issues and time is of the essense.  The changes created by the Affordible Health Care Act has created added steps for the employer to negotiate, but this does not excuse the company's failure to get this corrected when you need to get medical treatment now.  You should make clear the serious medical need you need to have resolved before incurring further medical complications (without giving up too much personal info) and give notice that you will need to purchase the medications by a set date and will expect them to reimburse you for this since it is their errors and failure to correct the matter that is causing the problem.  You need not be threatening with this letter or email, but make clear the seriousness and urgency of the problem, inability to wait any longer, and therefore their responsibility to reimburse you for these costs since they had ample to correct it... Read More