Termination of Employment Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota
What damages can be awarded in a wrongful termination case?
What damages can be awarded in a wrongful termination case?
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well Minnesota has some of the best laws
in the country when it comes to wrongful
terminations based on a protected
criteria based on who somebody is their
race their gender their disability who
they love or retaliating against someone
for making a complaint of discrimination
in Minnesota yeah everyone knows you get
lost wages the back pay okay fine you
can get front pay so if you go and you
get a another job after you’re
terminated great good on you but if
there’s a difference between what you
were making and what you’re making now
you can recover that difference going
forward additionally you can get
emotional distress damages and you know
by that I’m talking about dignity
damages what does it do to someone to be
discriminated against because of who
they are because of the color of their
skin or because of who they love or
because of something about them that
loss of dignity is what we call it
dignity damages is what you can recover
from and that’s what we talk to your
wife your husband your partner your
brother your sister your friends whoever
it is and we get testimony from them
about what you and your family went
through in Minnesota on top of that you
can get something called punitive
damages that is to punish the employer
for what they did not just to compensate
the plainif but to punish them for
breaking the law and discriminating
against someone or retaliating against
someone in Minnesota on top of that
there’s something called treble damages
treble is kind of like triple you can
get up to three times the actual damages
that you suffered the jury can apply a
multiplier up to three on those damages
so in Minnesota we have one of the best
civil rights statutes in the country
that affords a wide variety of remedies
not just to protect the employee but
also to protect our society in our
community from this type of behavior
because it actually hurts all of us when
someone our in our community is
discriminated against for protected
criteria because we need our best people
in the workforce and our best people
should be determined by their
qualifications and what they can bring
and how they think and how they act not
based on immutable characteristics about
who they are
Minneapolis, MN employment law attorney Ashwin Madia talks about the damages that can be awarded in a wrongful termination case.
