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Employee feels slighted by promotion process? That’s not enough to win retaliation lawsuit

07/13/2011

Some employees believe that anything the least bit negative that happens to them after they file a lawsuit is grounds for a second lawsuit alleging retaliation. That’s not true. To constitute retaliation, an employer has to do something that would dissuade a reasonable employee from filing a lawsuit in the first place.

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