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Better update your 2020 bingo cards...

First off, you're still being very cagy about your age, but if you're under the age of 40, then by definition it is not illegal age discrimination. At both the Federal and the state level if you're under 40, any attempt at an age discrimination claim is dead in the water before you even start...

You want to negotiate for a larger severance, fine. Your call. Just know a couple of things. On the basis of what facts you have deigned to share with us, your employers have done nothing illegal; there are no laws you can invoke that will force them to change their position or offer you a...

It is a Federal law and applies in all 50 states. If you are under 40 it most definitely does not apply, and if you are over 40 it may or may not apply. I'm not going to go digging for it unless there's some valid reason to believe you can make use of it. It ONLY is going to apply if you are (a)...

There is a very specific law that MIGHT have required your employer to give you more time to consider your options. However, you have to be over 40 for that law to apply. And age is the only factor it applies to at all. So sorry I inconvenienced you.

Document review is outside the scope of this forum. You'll need to show it to a local attorney.

Maybe. Maybe not. Not everything is legally binding just because it's written down. An attorney would have to review it under the contract laws of the state in question.

Perhaps you might want to make your example less extreme, as the removal of a kidney as treatment for a broken arm would never pass the hospital ethics review board. In fact, I suspect that in the highly unlikely event that it actually happened, the insurance carrier itself would absolve you of...

An insurance policy is a contract. It obligates the insurer to pay when, and only when, the conditions outlined in the contract are met. One of the conditions, as you have provided, is that the patient comply with medical advice. That's the patient's end of the contract to meet. If the patient...

My advice is that you pay the medical bills you incurred since it would appear that the insurance carrier has no liability for them.

I am asking this for a reason. How old are you?

As it is obvious that you will accept no answer but the one you want, and the answer you want is not one anyone here can truthfully give you as an absolute response, there is no point continuing the thread. Please take Blue's suggestion. Perhaps you will share facts with an attorney that will...

You want to explain to us why it was the jail's responsibility to send him to a hospital but the family had no such responsibility?

For the record, I have been in some form of HR since 1979 and I have had employees in at least half the states, including Pennsylvania. At no time have I been made aware of such a blacklist in ANY state. While many people seem convinced that such a list exists, I am here to tell you it does not...

If it were a private employer I'd have a suggestion but I have no clue where it's a government employer. Sorry.

I'm one of the employment law people. Exactly what were you convicted of? And exactly what is the wording of the question on the background check?

I don't know if what you're calling a buyout is what I have experience with, but my current employer has on several occasion offered a Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Plan (VERIP). There was one the year before I started which was still in the cleanup process when I started, a small one...

I have in the past gone through two hostile takeovers (one from the acquiring and one from the acquired side) and two mergers of major companies. In all cases, the lower down the ladder you were, the more likely you were of keeping your job. It was the folks at the upper end who found...

Also, sometimes it's not a question of the "old" employees being "bad". But new management coming in often has a different direction that they want to take the company/their department and they're more comfortable with the people they've worked with before. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong...

Quite common. It is not even remotely unusual for new management to "clean house" by bringing in their own people that they are used to working with. They don't always even bother to interview the existing employees to find out how well they might fit into their new vision - at least in your...