Latest Poll Results: Employment Lawsuits Rising?
Record EEOC claims. Rising litigation. Soaring damage awards. It’s a simple formula: economy down = lawsuits up. Or so the experts say.
We wanted to see what our loyal Blawg visitors are experiencing. At our most recent webinar, we asked our more than 1,500 attendees:
Are you seeing an increase in employment law claims?
Looks like the experts are right. A whopping 0% of our audience reported a decrease in claims. 100% are either seeing an increase or no change. Interestingly, though, only 5% reported a substantial increase.
Here are the full results:
- Yes, substantial increase — 5%
- Yes, modest increase — 28%
- No change — 64%
- No, modest decrease — 0%
- No, substantial decrease — 0%
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June 11th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I think the picture is more complex. In a buyers market you have some companies that are showing a little hubris in their hiring practices. Or you may have employees who looked the other way on bad treatment because the money was good. I’d be curious as to what type of complaints are being made.