Q: Publicly shamed in office for a born disability, reported it, quit, offered severance to not sue.. what are my options?
Former coworkers publicly shamed me for my walleye by printing crossed eyed pictures and hanging them in the office. They also harassed with a number of other photos taken in the bathroom and hung them up. As you can imagine, this really took a toll on me and put me in a very depressed state for 6 months. Currently going to therapy for it. I reported it to my manager 3 times and nothing was done about it. Eventually I walked into my managers officer and quit after I requested for the third time to be moved into a different role outside of the branch. I was told I would lose my health benefits and that was the last straw. They refused my resignation and at first they offered me 25k severance. After investigating (they haven't seen the pictures of the harrassment), they told me they determined it was worth 10k severance. There are a lot of details here however what are my options here? To me not only is this unethical, there has to be several employment laws broken here
A: An Ohio attorney could advise best, but your post remains open for two weeks. I'm sorry for your ordeal. Your category selections straddle a number of areas, but you did not include Employment Law as a heading. That might be one reason why the post remained open. You could reach out to employment law attorneys to see if a free initial consult is possible to briefly discuss the matter. Good luck
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